Peiping, May 19.
Ten days' heavy fighting in south Shansi is reported to have resulted in Japanese forces surrounding the Chinese on the north bank of the Yellow River in a wide semi-circle, with a 50-mile are along the river. the ferries of which have been occupied by the Japanese.
The Japanese are also said to have cut the Chinese mass in two. but the Japanese admit that casualties and "I dare say some folk have conjured up pictures of schooling abandoned and children largely left un-cared for and running wild," Mr. Ramsbotham said. "I am glad to say, however, that such a picture has no relation io the actual position."
He admitted that the task had been a difficult one, but said his department had handled satisfactorily two great migrations of school-children within a year. The first was in September 1939 and the second in September 1940.
In addition to the 600,000 children already in evacuee schools, there were "another 1,000,000 still potentially dangerous areas who ma; have to be removed to the countr: he said Many New Problems
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