The official reply recalled the report of the Medical Officer of Health for last year, in which it is stated that the rabies virus fs constantly Details have come to hand of the retreat of Fan Chung-hsin from the Lungehuen, Wan-an districts. Fan arrived at Lungehuen, and immediately began to raise money from the merchants there. On the arrival of a section of the Ist Kannan brigade, and 2,000 of General Feng, of Kian's troops, Fan retreated to a village named Yen-tien hsu. Here occupied the village and prepared 13,000, and the Kannan Brigade had about 1,000. These combined forces attacked Fan, and his men were slowly driven along streets of the market, from house to house. Shops were damaged, and one shopman at least was killed. Fan lost, about 300 men, and Feng about 100. 'The Kannan brigade lost 20 in killed and wounded. The streets were littered' with dead and dying, according to report, and the Northern Red Cross attended to wounded of both sides. Fan's Red Cross is said to have been pitiably inadequate, Bight prisoners were brought to Kanchow. Fan's retreat turned into a rout, and he left guns, and equipment in his flight. His own' chair fell into the Northerners' hands. The Northerners sent a sufficient force to pursue him along' the Hunan road, and he is now reported out of the province. Feng's men have returned, north to Kian, andthe Kannanese have returned to Kanchow.
Lungehuen suffered again from the funds levied by. the victorious Feng's men, who raised a subscrip-, tion from in a panic, and the deserted, and the shops closed.
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