The refugee situation is easier. Many families have returned to their homes on the mainland and still are returning daily. Thousands have left ty every steamship for Hongkong until the Colony refuses to take any more, Free tickets were given to those who wished to return to Foochow by a Butterfield & Swire ship end more wanted to go than the vessel could accommodate. There are still over 50 refugee camps, however, ith numbers in each ranging from 800 to 2,000. The Japanese Consul may give permission for some to reium. But what can they do?
T As far as is known only the new concrete buildings remain in Amoy. All the old structures were destroyed by fire. *Kulangsu has two canning factories, respectively the Amoy Canning Factory and the Oriental Canning Factory. These were both approached to essist in the refugee emergency and without hesitation, the Amoy Canning Factory agreed to do all in its power to help. Many Singapore people have sheres in the former. Its management, staff and them: are graduates irom Amoy Universi These young men—ros magnificently to the occasion. Give us rice" they said, "and we will supply the people with eae capable young men met. discussed, planned and acted and 60,000 meals were prepared for distribution among u various refugee centres by the Amoy Canning Factors în the day. Forty thousand, people were being fed from it; that is, the majority of the refugees on the island. d A recent rumour was in ci. culation ju Kulangsu that the Singapore millionaire, Ah Boon-haw, had offered ihe Generalissimo 100 planes if Amoy were recaptured. To retake Amoy would be a stupendous task. Its loss was almost entirely due to the Japanese having complete dominance of the air. A gift like that, however, is belter late than never an these pianes will assist to recover, what China must recover if she is te win, the mastery of the eir.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.