Kiukiang, July 30.
Almost the entire stretch of tracks of the Kiukiang-Nanchang Railway from Kiukiang to Tehan has been destroyed by Chinese soldiers in an effort to check the Japanese drive toward Nanchang, terminus of the line.
This information was brought to a Japanese air base at an undisclosed place yesterday by the pilot of a reconnaissance plane. The tracks were reported destroyed for a distance of about 60 kilometres.
South of Tehan the tracks were removed at several places, the pilot reported. The total length of the railway from Kiukiang to Nanchang is 130 kilometres—Domei, Money Now Exhausted, More Help Urgently Needed London, July 30.
The British Ambassador's Committee of the Lord Mayor's Fund at Shanghai cabled yesterday to the Mansion House, London, stating that Henkow was urgently asking for £20,000 in view of the projected formation of a large refugee safer zone.
"The money," the cable added, urgently needed."
In response the Committee immediately sent £5,000, and the Treasurer of the Lord Mayor's Fund in London, Dr. Gordon Thompson, is sending a further £5,000.
Including amounts spent on medi-El supplies, these two sums bring the total sent to £120,000, but they (says a statement issued by the Fund) practically exhaust all available money, and further help is greatly needed to save terror-stricken people in China.
Only in a safety zone controlled by Britons and other foreigners, adds the statement, can thousands upon thousands of unhappy refugees, mostly women, children and old peo ple, who have fled to Hankow from all parts of China's war areas, find any measure of security.—Reuter.
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