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JAPANESE TROOPS REFUGEE PROBLEM ACUTE THOUSANDS SWARMING INTO CITY fU.P.A.-By Electric Telegraph— Copyright! HONG KONG, 26th November. The Japanese advance close to the border has made the refugee problem acute. Thousands en masse ignored official appeals to wait till accommodation was provided. At least 100,000 swarmed with all their belongings, and even cattle, into the British-leased territory and spent the night in the open. Additional hordes rushed the Shamchun bridge leading to the British area. The police obstructed them, whereupon the refugees improvising plank bridges and rafts, so that the bridge was despairingly thrown open. The four refugee camps are already overcrowded, and the Bitish have disarmed and interned several hundred Chinese soldiers who tried to rush the frontier. British military outposts on the border report that Japanese shells are falling on their very doorstep.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 28 November 1938, Page 7
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