(Continued from page 7) to evacuate the city while British ships are evacuate foreign standing by to women—and children.
Japanese warships and transport vessels concentrated outside the har-hour of Swatow last Thursday and Friday in preparation for a landing, but the threat of a typhoon caused me ships to disperse-in search of safe anchorages. Since then, the Japanese vessels have congregated again and a landing is believed imminent.
Foreign observers arriving here from Swatow remark on the frailty of Swatow's defences and express the view that the Chinese are prepared to abandon the city after setting fire to it. Very few Chinese troops and practically no arms are to be seen, these observers state, but every house contains piles of waste material and paraffin so that a con-flag ration can be started at a moment's notice should efforts to repel a Japanese landing faiL—Trans-Ocean.
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