On November 4, the city was much alarmed by' rumours of im. pending invasion. Kiangsu troops! were said to be coming up from the south, headed by Chi Hsieh-yuan; troops retreating before Chang Teo-lin's triuntphant hosts approaching from the direction Tehchow, Worse than all. the great Marshal Wu was said to be determined to win back his old Tsinan and there inlake a stand ist his foes. Tt seems that an intercepted wire sent from Wu to his trusted hefichman Kao En-hung, Governor of Tsingtao, had been handed to the "Military: Governor of Shantung. The wire said that Wa was embarking for Tsingtao wits 20,000 picked troops. Kao was make necessary arrangements for disembarking these soldiers and having them entrained on the Shantung railway. The few troops remaining in Tsinan were utterly Inadequate to cope with this triple foo and the head officials became panic stricken. Several of th {families hastily left the city and one or two girls' schools were disband-fed. Banks began hastily to make preparations for guarding their [securities and the shopkeapors only partially took down their shutters. The scare lasted two or three days, until the rumour spread that Marshal Wu's picked men were only a mob of scattered companies defeated soldiers and that he had been advised' to land his' forces at Tsingtao, The Chinese Prose says peace is being made, and if this is s0, General Feng's move looks like being justified. The majority of the Chinese here think he acted wisely and believe that his motives were sincere and unselfish.
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