'The "Foreign Office will maintain two.offlees, one in Chungking and another In' Kunming, The business offices and junior officials will go to Chungking, while the Foreign Minister and several important members of the Ministry will go to Kunming, It is believed that Hankow will not be as severely bombed as Wuchang [and Hanyang, as many of the Powers Ihave their Embassies and Consulates Mere and there are still many for-feigners and much foreign property in the city.
The military aerodrome outside Hankow, however, and the Hankow station of the Peiping-Hankow Railway may be subjected to heavy. bombings.
Wuchang is expected to suffer most, las many Chinese military, Govern: ment and Kuomintang offices are in that area, Furthermore, the Japanese may wish to destroy the Wuchang section of the Canton-Hankow Railway in order to halt men and supplies from reaching Hankow and, at the same time, stop any withdrawal from Hankow to the south, Hanyang, it is believed, will probably come in for almost as much attention from Japanese raiders as Wuchang, because of its arsenal and iron and' steel works, for which the jelly tg noted—Reuter.
Safe Arrival Chungking Full of Refugees Hongkong, June 30.
The special "International Train," carrying 209 foreigners of various nationalities from Hankow and Changsha, arrived safely at 12.45 p.m. today. The train, its coaches covered, with English, American, French and German flags, toft Hankow at 9.45 on the morning of June 28—Reuter, Clearing \kow Proves Difficult Hankow, June 28.
With the general belief prevailing here that Hankow, Wuchang and Hanyang. will be heavily bombed, perhaps even more severely than Canton, in the near future, the work of evacuating women, children and wounded soldiers from the Wuhan cities continues on a large scale, While the Government authorities are doing everything in their power to evacuate as many as possible, the task is an extremely diMeult one, It is estimated that the igeeater Wuhan area, which includes Wuchang, Hankow and Hanyang, now has population of more than 2,000,000, With limited transportation facilities, the authorities are able to evacuaie only 8,000 persons per day, and it wil take them six months to complete total evacuation, It is realized, of course, that many. persons will not evacuate because of the property' they own in these cities or their business interests, and that many cannot evacuate because they do not possess the means.
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