How the Fengtien Men Cleared the City of Ready Money Before Departing: Marshal Sun's Arrival: Remnants of Chi Haieh-
-yuan's Army Pow 4 Conarsroxoext, Nanking, Oct. 22.
The picture of Nanking, a city] beleaguered, battling and anxious, with which I left Shanghai, promised for a moment on Wednesday morning to become an actuality, for the first distinct action visible to me on the deck of the Kiangshun as we neared the berth at Hsiakuan, (the port of Nanking) was a fairly Large detachment of soldiers embarking, with the evident object of crossing to Pukou.
Remnants of Chi's place hat they were Fengtien, Chines, whu was with me,
they were wearing peaked hats, whereas Chekiang, he knew, were hatted with a grey slouch, made of uniform cloth, and having in front enamelled Chinese flag. My thought was that with Fengtien still in the city, and resolved to def Nanking, while Sun's Chekiang men dayed at the back door, much was likely to happen. We quickly learned upon landing that Chekiang wai in occupation, and troops were in fact being sent to Pukou, to follow upon the Fengtien retreat, which took place Sunday evening. The Peaked-hatted contingent were Kiangsu men, Marshal Chi's (the former Tuchun of Nanking) old men, who, while Fengtien were la possession, held with the invaders, Dut upon' the retreat, elected to throw in their lot with Marshal Sun, and were being used across the river.
According to reports from various observers, five train loads of Ché- Kiang troops totalling arrived yesterday and, to those who had marched into Nan-
While T met nearly halt division, with machine-guns, on king city road, also on their way across, the entire city, to say nothing of the Bupd, is full of soldiers, Rumours has it that fighting has taken place beyond Pukou, but this is not confirmed, In Nanking all is qui City Cleared of Ci From Chinese storekeepers, the banks, and other sources comes the story of the Fengtien parting ges-tare. All, banks, were, visited guards posted without, were audited and all available cash "confiscated." "In addition to. this, shopkeepers were requested to! contribute to the tune of several hundred dollars each and the total "swag" la variously estimated at between $700,000 and a million, When Chekiang arrived, they were 86 relieved to find their walk ended and the enemy gone that, out! of sheer exuberance, they fired their rifles into the air, and from that arose the tale of Monday's street fighting. After which the worn-out. walkers just lay down on the streets and slept.
The Great Man Arrives Marshal Sun arrived here yesterday, and is staying at the Garden Hotel, on the upper Bund, which for the occasion is got up with aga and coloured lights. The road through the city to the hotel is thick with red carriages and green Ford cars, carrying official, civil and military, to and from interviews with the great man.
The one noticeable trait about these officials is that they will, if alone, sit bang in the middle of tha as though they were on a ie. And of course they had body guards clinging on to the running boards on either side No one seems to know where Tuchun Yang is. Some say he is on board the Japanese gunboat in mid stream. This is not generally' believed, the consensus of opinion being that he is somewhere north Pukou. *This is upheld by a Chin-exe shopkeeper who dragged out pencil and paper, and begun to draw me an elaborate map and explain the possible future moves in this camp ai The populace are pessimistic, but] not particularly perturbed, their} chief fear being of the tide's turn. ing and bringing the centre of the trouble back south of the river. The! shops are open, but there is no money market, money is scarce, and soldiers wander about everywhere.
"By the most credible reports Gen. Yang Vu-ting got away safely and has gone to Mukden—Ed,
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