Tuesday, Dec. 9.
We are still without mails from the outside world. No trains have reached us yet, nor can the railway author when regular trafic will be resumed. We have had no paper since the iseuc' wf the ist HEetiers written in Kueitchfu, three hours east on the railway, on. the 4th instant have just arrived in the ity. T cannot got this letter away you, 20 will continue it as a diary wats that take place here, Yesterday morning "we awoke with thankful hearts that the night thad been passed in peace. We had been awakened during the night by the movements of heavy trains trevling west, and wondered what could. mean. Early inquiries elicited the fact that General Han's Tuen had all moved out to the west during the hours of darkness. They fare said to have gone either to Chungimou, half way to Chengchow, lor to Chengchow, to join the main body' of the Shensi troops.
This desertion of the city by General Han's men has eased the situation wonderfully. To-day the Chih-troops are expected in, and even now a deputation of the parlia-Imentarlans and other notables have gone out to the Waterbarrier dyke, 10 Ni east of the city, to welcome them to cur midst, It was said yesterday' that, if they came. in, the Shensi men' would take it as a declaration of hostilities and would return to attack. But this ie regard. ed as an empty thres: to save face, fand we are not looking for any farther visit from them.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.