The first and second class cars were reserved to accommodate the sixty Italian men and two British women who made up our party. We were only about ten miles from Nanchang when the word went round that the air raid alarm had been sounded in Nanchang?
The train, however, did not sto" {or that, bui a couple of hours later, While the train was in a station, we were fold to get off and to take Cover in the fields, as an urgent alarm had been received. We had not been gone five minutes when we were called back, and we resumed our journey.
On getting to Kiukiang, after a six hour train journey, we found the city very busy and full of troops. The foreign community there is a very cheery one and is apparently quite unaffected by the war. There had been only two visits paid to that port by Japanese planes and very few bombs dropped, up to the date of Our visit, but the day after we were there the port had a raid, when over 100 bombs were said to have been dropped, The summer resort of Kuling Hat several hundred foreign nationals when we passed through. The American school was still functioning with about fifty pupils, but Kiukiang business men thought it was not a good place to stay, as they prophesied a shortage of both food and fuel on the mountain before the winter passed, Indeed we heard that the school had only three weeks supply of coal on hand.
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