The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-02-27
They Drop Leaflets To Warn Foreigners
BY HERBERT k. EKINs
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AOOp5IiSht 1Uoo py CMtcu EIcool Lingyuan, by Courier to Cheng- tefu. Feb 27.-UP)-Japanese Rirmen advanced scouts of the Mahchuria, to-day dropped leaf lets in English warning all foreign CTS to evacuate the province or suf- fer the consequences.
 Over this tense city of 27,000, half way between Chaoyang, which Is now in the hands of the Japan- ese, and Chengtehfu, capital of Jehol, the Nippon airrnen scattered bales of precautionary pamphlets. warning of impending raids by air and land. ..a . 'sForeign residents of Jehol prov tnce," the leaflets read. "The im- perial army warns you to take tenn porary refuge elsewhere, so you may escape contingencies"
 ''If this is impossible" the warn ings continued, you will assemble Together and put up clear signs, visible from the ground"
 2 The leaflets were signed by "the Commander-in-C Chief of the Kwan- tung army.''
 Reaction to the warning was inn mediate. I found the staff over the Protestant mission a mass of bunt- ing. British and American flags Together with the German ensign Apparently hastily stitched together from hunting, were hurriedly hoist ed after the first leaflets was picked up.
 Y The residents began digging in. Y Behind the stout walls of the hniss.on, workers had constructed a dugout six feet below ground. which would accommodate, per haps 50 children-most of them Chinese converts.
 ' Inside the mission I found an American, Miss Harriet Minns, of Buffalo, a German, Miss Anna Fischer, a young woman from England, M ss Ada Blackmore and Reginald w. Aturt and his wife, from London.
 Across the city two Belgian priests were similarly engaged Tn hasty preparations to protect their flocks.
 The noncombatants in this city which nestles in wide valley be- tween rugged mountain ranges ap- peared calm as the Japanese drive approached. There was little miilt- ray strength evident, because every available squad has been sent to stem the onrush of the allies" ] Every Chinese commander of the Section is at the front, concentrat- ing at Pingfengtsi, 40 miles east of this city.
 The major strength of the de- fenders-their "Hindenburg line"- is stretched between mountains some 20 miles east of Lingyuan. q As this is written, both sides are omniously quiet, evidently await ing the assault. Refugees trying to make their way westward are in- creasing in number, and heavily loaded caravans are rumbltng through sub-zero weather, across ice-locked streams, to what they hope will be safety.
 The villages near Lingyuan, through some of which I rode to- day, were practically deserted ex- cept for troops. But the troops, in never ending lines, are steadily go- ing forward, clogging every road 10 the front. Mule-drawn ammu- milton trains rumble along. This might be France or Belgium in the late months Of 1914.
 4 General Crang Huueh-Liang's s main army is drawn up due east ward of Lingyuan, prepared for a stand on which the whole future of the Jehol providence may depend. The terrain, impossible for tanks, armored cars. of long-range guns. favors the Chinese. Mountain fast nesses surround Lingyuan. The go-