A probable inference is that Chinese soldiers were destroying it when the Japanese advance guard come on with their machine guns and caught them as they ran from the entrance end along the Bund endeavouring to escape, They did not escape, for the suns mowed them down as was seen by many in Kulangsu. This theory 4s all the more probable as the bodies washed up subsequently by the tide onto the beaches of the island and taken for burial were those of C nese soldiers in uniform. Many soldiers' corpses were seen as they passed along but not the body of one civilian was observed among them.
The future of Kulangsu seems as much shrouded in mystery and gloom ae that of Amoy. One can only wait and see what the Japanese Consular attitude will be. Weakness has hitherto been our strength. To the Japanese, however, weakness has been an invitation for aggression. If the Japanese contemplate turning Amoy into a naval base, then Kulangsu will become an important place and British and American rights must not be abandoned.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.