The authorities have accomplished a notable feat at Ichang. Before Hankow fell vast quantities of chinery and stores of all descriptions were brought up-river to this port.
At the beginning of winter, the outskirts of the port contained huge dumps of metal, machinery and goods which, while vitally necessary to China, would have been most useful io the Japanese had they been captüred.
AN this, save a considerable quantity of cotton and other inflammable stores, which have been destroyed as a result of air raids, has been successfully moved up the Yangtze—Reuter, Warsaw, May 12.
Twenty Bulgarian peasants have been shot by Rumanian gendarmes in South Dobruja, the "Wieczor Warszawski" reports. These peasants and three other Bulgarians had been taken into custody, according to the paper, because they had crossed the Bulgarian-Rumanian frontier illegally. On their way to prison, it is reported, they attacked the gendarmes, in whose charge they were being transported, and attempted to escape whereupon the gendarmes made use of their weapons.—Trans-Ocean.
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