Gon. Tang's old and much respected father has been living in Changsha, A short time ago he left the city very abruptly without hidding anyone farewell and without anyone able and willing to say where or why he had gone. Rumour attacked the problem vigorously—
'a5 many men, $0 many rumours were there in the city. Of course, all centred on open hostilities between on, Tang Sheng-chih and the Gover. nor. One batch of rumours had eon. fidential basis for saying, that the! Governor had run away; a, second described the brave advance of himself and his troops towards Hangchow, eager to set in the first blow. All the time, the Governor was in the city.
Still, there was some fire at the bottom of the voluminous clouds of smoke and there were grounds for fearing that if Gen. Tang did move against Gen. Chao, the latter would have been unable with the com paratively few troops on whom he could rely to have held his own.
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