Collected Hankow, Oct. 24.
To the relief of the thousands of people remaining behind in Hankow, Father Jacquinot, the world-famous French Jesuit priest, informed the press this morning that "a Hankow refugee zone, for which the Hankow and Shanghai committees have been working for some time, has now ance with the original minimum request of the Hankow committee which is now proceeding with the completion of its preparations."
It is reliably learned that the area included the ex-Concessions and also Chinese territory as far back as the railway line, but not the Japanese Concession.
After his statement, Father Jacqui not added that the Chinese Government was already financing the zone, while the Chinese National Relief Committee and Government
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