Nantungchow, Ku, July 22.
Returning missionaries and foreign businessmen in northern Kiangsu report that conditions along the main routes of communications in that area, are not free from danger due to troop. movements." Repeated skirmishes take, place between Chinese soldiers and the Japanese. The latter have retreated from the northern cities of Faning and Yencheng and are trying to hold Balan, Jukao and other southern villages. "From their base in Nantungchow trucks are sent out, 'oF small motor boats with reinforce: ments, but bodies have also been seen carried back in trucks from the north, Nantungchow also seems to be used by the Japanese for commercial shipping purposes, aichow Still Untaken Taichow has not been taken by the Japanese and Is one of the only walled, tities in northern Kiangsu that remains more or less unaffected by the war, It is virtually surrounded by cities and towns that show the destruction of warfare, Missionaries wounded soldiers and crippled ships back, but bodies are off and on seen floating in the river. Along the river On both banks farmers. seem quietly engaged at their work and ships carrying pigs and other produce call regularly at various " places although these places do shitt from, time to time.
Missionaries Carry on There are a number of foreigners} in the north Kiangsu districts. At] Nantung Miss Mushrush has carried on uninterruptedly ever since the beginning of hostilities. She saw the [Christian hospital bombed and go up in flames by Japanese incendiary bombs. She cared for the sick and ying and even prepared bodies for At Jukuo the Christian Reformed] Church missionaries have gone back British Ship Sends Piracy Alarm sti travel back and forth from Tsinklangpu, Sulsien, Haichow. Tal-chow and Jtkao remaining in Chinese occupied territory. Occasionally firing is heard from opposing forees and the movements of civilians readily indicate the direction of the trouble.
Roads, where once motor cars. travelled to and fro are now again, changed into farm lands, so cut up by, ditches that even the wheelbarrow has ity difeulties in getting through. Wheelbarrows are plentiful and small oats can still be hired in Chinese controlled areas, In the narrow strip of Japanese controlled areas, travel is only open to the Japanese military. Large motor trucks and motor beals fare seen off and on, and the routes used by the Japanese are marked by vasted villages and farm houses long the canals and highways.
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