At the height of this tension we were wakened on the morning of November 10 by a volley of gunshots from the direction of the yamen, Soon news reached us that the rebels had come to take over the Early that morning from Wabo, which iny before joined the revolt, bad arrived with " body-guard, set op his headquarters in an ancestral hall outside the North Gate of the city, took ion of the city in the name of the " Repablican Army," the usual proclamation of the revolution, and had with " emall force to the yamen to demanded the surrender of the city. The unruly entrance of his mob and ti lender's wild demands at once excited the magietrate's suspicion, and he demanded the leader's credentials. Instead of credentials there was s threatening de-paar the official ordered his goards id sixteen of the mob were Tile, The leader retired to his headquarters where gigantic white banners proclaimed in red letters the " Republican Army" an ant General Faog." To this centre gravitated the larger part of the city's population. This location onteide the North Gate placed him in the midst of the most oadesinsble element in the city, hotbed of rowdies and
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