Hoping to; epable refugees who cannot afford to pay travelling exvenses to return to Nanking, Mr. Jen Yuan-tao, Mayor of Naking, has approached the Japanese Army's Special Service Section with a request that they be allowed to travel free ct charge.
He asked that permits be issued for Nanking refugees to return to the former capital, either by land or water, without cost, according to reports received in Shanghai, It was reported that although a large number of. Nankings former residents already have returned there, tens of thousands of others still are in other districts, such as Wuhu, Pengpu, Hanshan, Hochow, Changchow, Chingkiang Wusih and Yangchow.
The majority of these already have spent all the money they brought with them when they left the former capital the reports said.
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