hero were very much frightened, and, us is usual under sich circumstances, came to the foreigner fur advices We urged them to settle the pending cases at once, as the only possible means of securing the return of the Germans to Tsintao. The officer in command of the few troops which were hero is strongly anti-foreign, He proposed to go out and meet the enemy. He thought that few words from him would turn them buck, but ifthe would not listen to reason then he would be compelled to use force! When the people heard that the Gerornus had gone back to the coast they at once concluded that they were afraid to who made the wy troops have been coming in from Téngehoufa and Chefoo. There are now about two thousand soldiers in the city.
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