My friend told me that the erying. of the women and children through. out this fighting was pitiful, and that many in their terror threw {themeselves down wells and committed suicide. Many of them drowned themselves in the river. When the fighting was over and the People began to come out of their hiding places thay presented forlorn sight. They had the ap-Pearance of people insane, and seemed afraid to speak.
Such is the horror of war and its havoc on defenceless people.
My friend who is an agent for a foreign cigarette company told me: that when he checked up, his shop he found that the Fengtien soldiers, had stolen more than $500, about 30,000 coppers and about' $500 worth of cigarettes, together with all the family clothes both winter: and sumer wears, quilts and Ulankets, etc, and that the other Tmerchants were all similarly affected.
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