The following details of Wednesday's and Thuredey's fighting are taken from the " Hankow Daily News" of October: 19 and 20.
The rebels on Wednesday who sdvanced to the north-east of the Rs Course numbered 1,500 to 2,000 and were composed almost entirely of on-drilled recruits.
'A masked battery on the Wochang shore to the est of the city opened an ineffective fire on the loyal gunboats which replied with their heaviest weapons, finally silencing the rebel battery.
The firing of the rebel recruits was rapid bot aimless and ceased more noire than effect.
A party of foreigners watched the contest from a dissed foreiga house within a few handred yards ut Kilometre Ten Station. sponse was given No Is, but some: oat in" semicircle in the direction of the about 400 circling close to the rail line and the remainder fiadiog uretal cover in a millet field whence they opened " steady fire on the front ranks of the rebels, At 230 p.m., the rebels supported by fourteen guns moved forward to a renewed attack and 1,000 infantry, xomne of them drilled troops chang. pashed out from the wards the Japanese crematorium. loyal gauboats opened a sharp fire open them.
To the early hoary of Tharsday, nambers of loyal troops wore retreating.
ney line and two regiment to explain.
Later in the morning the loyal camp presented a deserted appearance for those who had not retreated were out. on the plain facing an erratic fire.
ok cartridges were picked ap, and thie led to a report that the reason of the loyalist retreat was that they were only supplied with these In contract to this statement, it may be mentioned that at the railway station, large quantities of genuine ammunition were teand.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.