The village has only one gate which ix at the south end, The people ran. {othe north end of the village, climbed over the broken-down mud wall, waded through water in the moat, waist deep, and fled into the country to spend the remaining hours of the night shivering in wet clothes, unless they happened to have relatives or other friends to whom they could to, Later, they found that the disturbance was caused by about 200) friendly Chinese soldiers, who came up outside the gate, but did not enter, They remained in the vicinity for some hours, then disappeared Into the country, 'Some months ago a bus company] bean operations in' this district, AN first, there was no method of predicting when, or whether, 3. bus would run. After a time, it was! rumoured that buses would' run "on certain days of the week. After a further period of uncertainty, the service attained some degree of re~ gularity, but all buses must have military' convoy.
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