This city, and pretty well the whole province is cleaned of its! soldiery. Early in the Kiangsu-Chekiang struggle the eastern division was despatched south, to 1 followed several days afterwards by part of the local troops, Since Fengtien has engaged the Chibli faction the rest of the local troops! and most of those from the Loyang and Chengchow sectors have gone to the north. The Tuli of the Huchow, Che., Oct. 12.
Huchow sains to be trying havid to get back to normal conditions. Shopkeepers have taken" dowit their shutters and are doing business at their © old stands with the few city customers. who have carried on through. the {troublous times of the past three of four weeks. Country people are again beginning to crowd the streets and bring in their produce: 'A trip about town during the day: province has likewise gone to Peking to assist in the conduct of the war. 'Thus it happens that for} the first time in many years the sound of the bugle is not heard in the early morning hours, nor is the evening watch marked as for the regular barracks routine, 'The unprotected state of 1 city' is giving the local authorities some concern. Fortunately the large! bands of brigands that had infested the province incessantly for the last few years have been -broken up by the unremitting vigilance of Marshal Wu's forces during the: past half year, so that there is not the danger that there undoubtedly would have been at another such time. But when there is such a opportunity as the present one, evil characters will not be slow to grasp it; hence tie concern of the: local authorities.
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