Country Crowded with All the Confusion and Wreckage of Six Weeks' War Passing through the country, outside Shanghai on the way Quinsan to see Marshal Chi Hsieh-yuan, gave one for a moment the perience during these war of a peaceful' peasantry, gathering their crops, looking after their fields, drinking tea and talking politics in the local tea-shop. Then pop! A rifle shot in a village and everyone scampered out into the roads, running as hard as they could, There were 20 husky farmers, but on they ran. Tt turned out that the soldiers were looking for chickens and frightening the farmers as a matter of sport.
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