All Able-Bodied Men Commanding commandeered (in a free republic!). There was quite a panic to-day in the city and all those who can do so are moving to Tientsin (so there is a use for a foreign settlement after all!).
"There is the last straw that has broken the camel's back. Schools are closed, with the pupils bolting to places of safety and fearing they cannot reach such in time, even when abandoning all their worldly goods to the champion looters of the Chinese army. All telegrams are strictly censored. Food is at an exorbitant price and coal is unprocurable no one to deliver One gets no reliable news and nothing is allowed to get out. No more tickets are being sold for Mukden or Hankow.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.