More Tranquillity in the City But Many Troops: Nanchang Under the Students Fae er Ows Connesroxnent Kiukiang, Sept. 0.
Since Marshal "Sun Chuan-fang arrived here on the morning of the 22nd instant, amidst music and a huge crowd of welcomers, the general conditions here have gradually improved and everything become more peaceful, Martial Law has been declared and people are not allowed in the streets between 6 p.m, and 8 am, Communication between the concession and the Chinese town, has been entirely interrupted, be cause the China Merchants' wharf, where the Marshal's gunboat. is anchored, is adjacent to the concession.
All the Generals of the Allied Armies were here when the Mar= shal came, and a military confer fence was held on the same day last ing for some eight hours, from 6 am, to 2 p.m. The most important present were Gen, Lu Hsiang-ting, 'Tupan of Chekiang and Commander-in-Chief of the 3rd Army, Gen, Chen Tiao-yuan, Tupan of Anhui Commander-in-Chief of the 3th Army, and Gen, Li Hung-chen, Defence' Commissioner at Kiukiang also a number of Allied Generals of minor importance, Marshal Sun is living on board the gunboat Yin Shih, which accompanied by four other men-of-war, 30 people really do not know which one he is now in. He has brought with him a company of 5,000 bodyguards heavily armed, There are also four steamers of the China Merchants anchored in the river ready for any emergency, Within the past two days about 20,000 soldiers have come from Anhui and Kiangsu, 5,000 of them arriving to-day.
Report from' the war fronts ave many but vague, but all agree that. the situation in both central Kiangsi and western Kinngsi has much improved. Some two weeks ago, the Allied soldiers were defeated by the Southerners on the Hsiushui front, but now fate seems to. be turning favourably to the allied side, The students and propagandists are reported to have made great trouble in Nanchang and burnt many houses. Both the police and the city guards revolted on the evening of the 19th instant, but were put down by the allied troops stationed at Linhong, this side of the Kan River opposite to. Nanchang and order was restored in the CHINESE reports state that a conignmont of 5,000 bombs has been sent from Shanghai to Nanking. These are for the use of 500 "Dare to Dies" in the "ANied" army. These men are supposed to be peculiarly reckless and will be used on bombing expeditions. lived in for the last four summers, letting our own, but it ix all our own belongings' that have gone, Others have fared just as badly, but no missionaries, The given excuse foremen bungalows at the soldiers were huntpparent= would have hidden with the missionaries, We are glad we came down when we did for the remaining people hiad a desperate time at first, shots were buzzing everywhere. bombs and hand grenades doing lots of damage, and a great deal of impudence had to be put up with from the soldiers, One lady was held up at the pain revolver. just as shew i her getaway, on her own verandah, commanded to undress hand her dress which was a woollen knitted one, and she had to do it too.
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