Shanghai, July 28.
Law and order collapsed in Kiukiang on Sunday as Chinese troops began a wholesale evacuation. Destitute refugees and retreating Chinese soldiery plunged the city in a slate of terror, plundering valuables and. food, This description of the situation In Kiukiang was made by a Japanese naval spokesman yesterday on the basis of information said to have been obtained from Dr. Edward C, Perkins of the Methodist Episcopal hospital fand the Rev. J. E. Trick, who is asserted to have approached the Japanese military authorities for protection against disorderly Chinese elements soon after the occupation of the town on Tuesday.
"About 10,000 destitute Chinese, the spokesman said, remained in Kiukiang. All. the wealthy people and the majority of those with any means had evacuated the town, he said
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