No one from Sungpu came on with the bodies, but the Hankow escort said that they had left that place on Friday in charge of one of Li Taotai's runners, sent by him from Huangchow for the purpose. 'Tseng Liao-yeh, the gentleman of hsien rank appointed' by the Viceroy to brins the bodies respectfully to Hankow, coul not be spared by his colleague Li Taotai from Huangchow, I suppose; anyhow the bodies were brought back by underlings.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.