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The refugee problem is growing increasingly serious. The Government is rushing all available police to the New Territories, while soldiers are hastily erecting barbed ware enclosures at Fanling and other points in which it is hoped to collect and control the milling thousands, Two hundred more Chinese troops arrived late this morning at the border police station at Takuling, where they were disarmed and interned, Seventy-six' Chinese wounded soldiers were admitted into hospitals in Kowloon this morning, while scores of others are being attended to at R.A.M.C. emergency stations on the border.
The nearest Japanese troops are said to be only half a{ mile from British territory.
Japanese planes this morning bombed thè Shumchun Customs station, the staff of which had pr iously moved over the border. Reuter.
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