From Our Own Correspondent, Ichang, Sept. 9. to-day: "Our records show that in former changes of dynasty it cost the lives of about half the people." He stopped there and left me to draw conclusions, It is beyond the power of Chinese belief that the Revolution will not cost On Saturday, September 7, some soldiers at Shasi visited the pawnshops and demanded a certain exchange for their paper notes. This the managers of shops refused and the soldiers broke some of them up. The officers then arrested the soldiers and flogged them, with the result that the soldiers went for Colonel Hsiao. The Colonel es-aped, but they murdered his secretary. General Tang, who about this time had gone on board a Japanese steamer, got into a sampan and crossed the river and it is not known where he went.
'The troops looted the pawnshops and silversmiths. They also are said to have destroyed the telegraph office and the Song P'an Ting's residence and the officers' quarters.
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