Between the 10th and 13th of April nearly fifteen hundred soldiers arrived at chonta under Hsia Pung-Ling, They made this point from Téngchoufu and Ch'inj
a brave display as they came in, company after company, with their huge red banners flapping in the breeze and with the blare of trumpets varied by an occasional foreign bugle. They confided to all who enquired that the long-promised extermination of the foreigners and their adherents was at hand. Indeed there was much bad talk upon the streets, but when they all marched out on the road to Jihchao on the 15th of April, without molesting a single Christi the public faith in the supposed ant foreign intentions of the authorities was visibly shaken, The soldiers now announced that they were going to fight the Germans, but as news came in due time that the entire force had halted and gone into camp ten & this side of Jilichao, this boast also was seen to be empty.
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