Hankow, June 9. HE Chinese Government offices are being transferred from Hankow. The civil offices are being moved to Chungking, the present capital of China, while the military offices are being moved to the south, first to Hunan and later to Kunming (Yunnanfu), capital of Yunnan, It is learned that the Ministries of Economic Affairs, Education and the Interior will be established in Chungking, in addition to the Legislative, Judicial, Examination and Control yuan, which are already situated there.
be established at Kunming., The Ministry of Communications and the Foreign: Office will About 10 of the highest official: of each Ministry will remain in Hankow for the present pending further developments, It is not known where the headquarters of General Chiang Kai-shek, Commander-in-Chief of China's armed forces, will be located, but is practically certain that the military office will be established in West Hunan.
Hengyang, in south Hunan, is also likely to become an important military centre, Trains, steamers and planes bound for the west and south, are crowded with refugees of all classes who are streaming out of Hankow in an exodus which promises to eclipse that from Nanking: last year.
Pathetic sights are to be seen at the headquarters of the Chinese Women's War Relief Association, where hundreds of children are being received daily from refugees who are unable to care for them.
The children are being sent to special camps in Kwangsi, Szechuen and Yunnan.—Reuter,
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