Almost Entire City Burnt In Raging Inferno; Chinese Retreat from Sui River Hankow, Nov. 16.
Chinese troops, who during the past few days have been behaving in a disorderly manner at Changsha, appear to be fully disciplined now and all foreigners are safe, according toa foreign report from that place. Contrary to rumours, the Provincial Governor is still in Changsha, and doing all in his power to restore peace and. order, Almost the entire city has been destroyed, with the exception of a small area in the south-east part. Changsha is regarded as unsafe owing to falling masonry, The Yee Tsoong Tobacco Company, Butterfield and Swire's building, and Chinese Maritime Customs property on the mainland are intact, despite the recent raging inferno, but other commercial premises were destroyed.
Mission properties, although affected by the fire, are still standing, The situation at Yale University is somewhat doubtful, and the evacuation of Some November shipments according to information available along the Shanghai waterfront were.
Fumi Maru, towing ore lorcha, with import cargo of 2,500 packages of cotton yarn, sugar, piece goods, paper and tobacco stalk and leaf, left with export cargo of 4,000 packages of wheat, eggs, egg yolk, albumen and dried lillles.
Asia, with two lighters, with import cargo of 1,000 packages of sugar, tobacco leaf, paper and sundries, left with export cargo of 7,400 packages of wheat, albumen, melon seeds and yolk.
Tai Shun, towing two lorchas, with import cargo of 3,500 packages of sugar, paper, piece goods, cotton yarn and sandalwood, left with export cargo of 2,000 packages of wheat, yamun seed and sundries.
Shunhang and one lighter carrying import cargo of 2,500 packages of piece goods, sugar and paper, left with export cargo of 4,000 packages of wheat, egg products, albumen, and sundries.
Sakura Maru, towing two junks, carried no import cargo but left with 3,000 packages principally wheat.
These are a few instances referring only to the port of Kowan. Japanese vessels are trading with other ports as far west as Wuhu, where, among other things, there has been a large exportation "of rice.
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