Mr. Allison in his lengthy report aid that the incident in Nanking was "the culmination of a series of minor incidents." He said that both Mr. Charles H. Riggs and Dr. M. S. Bates of Nanking University had interviewed the Chinese woman who was said to hive been dragged from the University's premises, She told them that she was ble to identify her assailants, Mi Allison and Mr Riggs were conducting a further examination Outside the building now occupied by Japanese soldiers when a Japan-se sentry pushed the Americans toward the gate shouting, "back, back" in English.
"We backed slowly," Mr.
Allison reported, "but before we had te get out I was slay face and Mr Yangtze City Faces War's Hardships Tlankow. Jan.
Hankow is facing a serious shortage o? coal owing to the difficulty of transporting this fuel from the mine: in Honan and Hunan, All transportation facilities being utilised for the movement of troops and military supplies.
The price of coal here has n ore than doubled in the past few day:
The shortage is so serious that the power-plant contemplated the stoppage of its supply during the daytime. but, luckily, it was finally found unnecessary to enforce this measure—Reuter.
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