Hongkong, July 3.
In a dismal rain, 2.000 women and children, comprising the second batch of foreign evacuees from Hongkong, embarked for Manila this moral They were taken in small parties to the two Empress liners—the Empress of Japan and the Empress of Russia—which saided a few hours later.
The "Hongkong Telegraph" learns that the Australian authorities are preparing to receive a large proportion of the Colony's evacuees, while to care for refugee children are pouring The three leading hotels and the Hongkong Club were crowded between 10 and 11 this morning, when the evacuees gathered to receiv identification tags and _evacuat cards and to have their passports inspected and stamped with the words "Hongkong official evacuee."
Evidently much moved, most. women sat quietly, waiting for their turn to go to the waiting Empress, liners. Some indulged in a final cup of tea or a gimlet. The children, however. hugely excited, treated the, occasion as a big jamboree.
Nurses were. in attendance, and were invaluable in looking." after children while mothers were engaged in passport examination, rocking and soothing babies and patiently" an~ sworing a thousand childish questions.
Organization throughout was excel-"stajgerin als and despatches lent, and thanks (0 the system
and relatives waiting on wharf there was no- congestion. Husbands were given a few minutes to say Koodbye to their loved ones before they embarked—Reuter,
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