From Our Own Correspondent.
Changsha, Sept. 15.
"As many men, so many opinion," runs the old saw.. Certainly there has been variety in the opinions one has heard expressed in Changsha during the last three days. Forty-eight hours ago, I was.able to send word that Chao's troops were coming in. The impossible seemed to have happened. Who_has before~ been able to chronicle the snatching of victory by Chinese troops from the jaws of defeat? Just as they were arriving on the Bund—and killing off two of the "enemy" whom they met on the Bund, and another two who had tried to take refuge in the river, an effort which one bystander assured me had taken a hundred bullets—came the ian. with the papers informing us that Wu Pei-fu had consented to help Chao Hong-ti to deal with his "rebellious subordinate Tan Yen-kai." (Tan Yen-kai may well retort that it was Chao Hong-ti who was the "subordinate" who "rebelled"? against him and who was "sent to Coventry" by Wu Pei-fu for doing so.)
For hours, indeed for most of Thursday-Friday night, troops were pouring into the city. Last night, three Brigadier-Generals were here, viz. Yeh Kai-hsing, of the Ist Mixed Brigade, and Tang and Ho, of the two brigades of the Ist division. They had with them, so it is said, the whole of the Ist Mixed Brigade (excent a few battalions left with Chao Hong-ti at Liling) and the whole of the Ist Division, save the turncoats—to wit, the 25th regiment of the 1st Mixed Brigade and one battalion of the 1st division.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.