The Province a Prey to Leaderless Soldiers and Rivals for the Tuchunship: Press-Gang Seizing Civilians to Help Flight S966 Frost Our Own Yenchow, Che,, Sept. 20.
Last Wednesday, as the day ws declining there swept over this town and'distriet fear and dread, News came to hand that the Fukien troops. were already in possession of the town of Kinngshan, on the Fukien darder, while the town and county of Changshan had surrendered to thes army besieging it from the province of Kiangsi. "The Chekiang army has been defeated and are fleeing in all directions to Hangchow," were the words on every tongue.
Fearing the "spoiler"? would" fall upon the town at any moment, hurried preparations were made to flee to the country. darin, with all "his secretariat, set the pace of the panic. In the space of a few hours all that remained at the official headquarters was a doorkeeper and a few mangy dogs. A proclamation was posted exhorting: the people to be: perfectly quiet and on no acount to he uneasy." Before daylight most of the women and children had reached some home in the hills for refuge.
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