Questioned at the press conference yesterday, spokesmen said that the avy would afford transportation for the evacuees to Shanghai, at such a time as was convenient; for the moment nothing had been done to facilitate their removal from Kuling, inasmuch as there had been no reply from the interested Consul-Generals and because no modus operandi had been provided for their trip down the hil By indirect means word would bbe sent them later regarding methods Of evacuation; in all probability the Japanese would meet them at the fend of the motor road. Ambulances would be provided for the party.
'A British correspondent inquired whether—because many had been living there for a long span of years—they would be allowed to return after peace and order had been established. The reply intimated that the same situation would prevail as elsewhere, but no specific date would be set. The inference was that when military necessity allowed.
'Another asked if they would be allowed to bring down their furniture of many years' accumulation, principally valuable curios, objets dart Terrible Suffering In Kweiyang Chungking, Feb. 4 A pathetic picture, giving details of yesterday's bombing of the capital of Kweichow province by Japanese planes, is presented in Chinese dispatches from Kweiyang.
Among the buildings demolished. says the report, were the provincial hospital, the Commercial Press and the Chunghwa World Book stores, and also the offices of the Kweiyang "Central Daily News," the Kweiyang Morning Post," the—Kweiyanit "Revolutionary Daily," the Central News Agency head 'once and the Kweiyang mice of the Popular Education Centre.
The number of casualties is estimated to total over 500.
Thousands of people. in escaping from the huge conflagration, which broke out after the bombing. left the city and took to the hills.
'A high wind rose over night, sweep the hills, Increasing the distress fof the refugees, who shivered in the bitter cold.—Reuter.
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