Reporters from Peking and Tianjin who traveled to Shenyang filed reports like this one: "The train arrives in Huanggutun in the afternoon. There is no Japanese military presence at the station. Refugees crowd the station inside and out. Many are small business people with children in tow.
當時東北的情況，由平津入瀋陽採訪的記者團，有這樣的報導：「車於是日下午抵皇姑屯，站上並無日軍，逃難人民聚集站內外及天橋上約數千，多係小資本商，拖男帶女，慘不忍睹。