In an effort to hold up a possible Japanese advance westward, the highway between Hankow and Shasi has been systematically destroyed by the main body of the Chinese troops which withdrew from Hankow, according to a Chinese who evacuated Hankow on the morning of October 25 just before the entry of the Japanese and arrived here today.
During his trip here, he encountered thousands of rickshaw coolies with their families who Had evacuated Hankow on October 20.—Reuter.
Washington, Oct. 29. President Roosevelt's Railway Fact Finding Board today suggested immediate far-reaching rehabilitation of the United States carrier system, and at the same time recommended thet no wage cuts be forced on employees.
Mr. H. A. Enochs, Committeeman of the Carriers Joint Conference, declared that railways would be forced io act "to make ends meet....we do not see how the decision can help but impede economic recovery. "We cannot operate railways on thin air, and the decision does not answer the problem of where to get money for current expenses," he added.
The Fact Finding Board's report said that "the necessity now rests on the government making a complete reconsideration of the relationship between the railway industry and the national well-being."
The Board's report does not bind either side, but President Roosevelt has 60 days in which to mediate differences between railway employees and employers before the employees can go out an strike under the provisions of the National Railway Act.
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