Oct. 23.
We print to-day by the courtesy of the China Inland Mission a at Hankow on Wednesday and first-hand account of the fighting,
Thursday which ended in the rettest of the Imperialist troops. A more contemptible story it would be difficult to imagine. Not only: did the Imperislists offer practically no resistance by land, but the revolutionists turned tail at the first taste of the cruisers' fire, the one ght was made on the Imperialist arter from which any show of
side; while a couple of shots, not too well directed, were sufficient to' bring down the rebel officers at a ran from the tower on the race course to which they had mounted in order to direct operations. The brunt of the work would seem to have been borne by the coolies whom the rebel leaders sent ahead, on the Thursday morning, to reconnoitre the Imperialist camp. No doubt these were the elderly coolies whom our correspondent saw, the other day, recruited at Wuchang. The younger and likelier men, of whom the same writer spoke, would remember, in common with their revolutionary masters, that they had yet many years of life which they could not afford to risk. Fortunately for all parties the coolie corps was able to report the Imperialist camp and as the gunboats had temporarily disappeared down stream, the rebel
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