(Later in the evening of the same date.) Several trains of troops Jeame from Chengchow to-day, and the city is in an absolute panic, passenger trains left either for: the east or the west during the dai land. the postal officials do not Jpeet the mail from the east. Between one and two thousand of the former 24th Division went on through to Kusiteh, after being re-froshed here in the city. To-night the remnant of, the 3rd Honan Mixed brigade, under Mah Tsang-ting, is in the station precincts. The troops are said to number between two and, three thousand men, and fare a morose, disappointed looking of, that seem not to have had the Jopportunity for a good wash for sevorul days. They are in a very fugly mood, and it would take very little provéeation to start them footing. The Chamber of Commerce making all arangoments to: [look after their physical comforts during the night.
'A telegram from Chengtehfu in-rms friends in the city here that the whole body of the Honan: forees ave in a general retreat from, the north of the province, 'A meeting in the Taoyin's office yesterday, representative of the merchants, and provincial officials, [determined on measures to save th Provincial Bank, and to cash all the notes that are presented, This will be done through the merchants, receiving the notes as currency, A telegram from the Provincial Assembly was despatched to Peking informing the Governm the high provincial have resigned, and asking that immediate appointments be made, Incidentally it is learned that the Honan people would much profer that the Tuli of Shensi, Liu, should sent here, as he is a Honan man, jand that Hu Ching-yi, a Shensi man, should be sent thither,
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