Nanwei is, however, only o several fairly big centres which to come under the revolutionary away in Pootang. Chibso is one of these. A number of the rerolationariee arrived there the other day, and proceeded to interview the magistrate, who expressed his readiness to hand over hie scale to properly accredited representatives of the party. Evidently be did not regard his visitors as euch, and he atill retame them.
In many of theee pines the same relations between the people and the self-government societies are ssid to exist as at Nanwei, and, if going onder the auspices of the self-gorernment societies, the revolutionaries are likely to be no more popular there. With reference to the possibility of a conflict between the revolutionary soldiers and the countrypeople, it thought that a pitched battle, it sach it could called, between the two sides is unlikely. These countryple sre more likely to go in for guerilla warfare, As soon as a [ores shows itself in their dia for they i generally vanish, bat in a day or two: make their presence felt by " series of small attacks which may be kept up indefinitely. Io any event Pootang ix not expected to prove altogether a bed of roses for the revolutionary government, although there is not the slightest indication that so Inperialist spirit is animating the people, The whole city ie disorder,
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