Amoy is still a city of impenetrable mystery. A black dog looking for its master is the only movement of life that the long Bund shows, Smoke occasionally is seen issuing from the chimneys of the power station, but ihe city remains in darkness. Workers engaged at the power station are in Kulangsu and when asked if they destroyed the plant before leaving denied doing so. They said they left es usual at noon meal.and when returning at 2 p.m. were told that the Jepanese forces were close at hand.
They did not return to the electric station but crossed the harbour at once, Asked who.could have destroyed the machinery, they said that Chinese soldiers might have done so but they did not know. That the station has been, damaged is evident by the gloom that nightly hangs over the city, and the number of times smoke has been seen issuing from it
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