More soldiers are coming to Mienchow: and the people are having a bad time. Every other day or so the order goes round for the citizens to put out more money for military necessities, There is fighting at T'ungeh'wan, 140 Ti away.
Hsiong Keh-wu is said to have resigned as he is afraid Liu Ts'en-hou may be jealous of him. Liu has hardly played the game, if what is said of him is true. When he went up north (on, dit) he sold the tuchunship to Hsiong for $6,000,- 000. Hsiong afterwards sold it (as a bad spee.?) to Lu Ch'ao for: $4,000,000, not a bad deal (always supposing it is: true). Lu did not resell it as he had to clear out.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.