We have noticed several items in the paper with regard to the uprising in this province, and have waited until it was possible to secure some reliable news. There are lots of rumours everywhere, and few of them have any truth. We were fortunate in having a chat with a man who came through the thick of the trouble the other day, and will give some extracts from statements, While we are not positive, it is practically certain that Hsiong K'eh-wu is now in Szechuan, with his headquarters at Suifu. This is possibly the city mentioned by some of the writers in the "Herald" as Hsuchowfu. He made double , e8 with his troops to the border, place called Laowat'an, met the Szechuanese troops and drove them back. Then at a place some 120 li west of Suifu, he met the troops, composed of northerners, and Szechuanese. It is said that the more experienced soldiers placed the Szechuan troops in the front rank and they bore the brunt of the attack, and were defeated, but one thing is certain, the loyalists retired on Suifu, and then when Hsiong advanced retreated from that city, taking the official of the place with them. For some thirty hours the city was without an official, when the rebel leader arrived, and everything in the city went on as before. The people were d that they must carry on hi as usual," and they are ap) y doing it. It ix said that the northerners took all the ammunition in the city to the river bank and what they did not explode, they threw into the river. \They then retreated on Luchow which is the has for the northeraers, where they have erected breastworks and also a pontoon bridge. The city is quiet, and there is no fear of trouble there with the quota of soldiers stationed there.
Red Cross work was organized at once and the Baptist Hospital at Suifu has its wards open for the wounded, There were some thirty in the hospital at the end of the month. Luchow also has some twenty wounded soldiers.
Yachow has also gone over to bels, but we do not know that captured by the Yunnanese.
Lower river launches are busy conveying men and arms westward, but it is evident that the men are not familiar with, nor the vessele built for, travel on the higher Yangtze. They do not find the rapids easy climbing.
As far as we know, or can find out, there are no other disturbances in the province, except the usual robber bands. Crops are good and most of the people do not seem to care whether Yuan is s king, an emperor of a president. What they fro
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.