Mr, Davies says that at the time the battle Yang Sen must have 1 not less than between 20,000 to 000 soldiers in Wanhsien, spread over the town. Their' temper shown by the fact that a day or after they had seized the Wan-en and the Wantung, they shot} Chinese sampan man dead on the ud merely because he had taken passenger to the Cockchafer. He 8 not employed by the Cockchafer had simply been hired casually] 'a man who wished to go off to ship; directly he got back to the jshore he was taken by the soldiers, shot, and his body left on the Bund.
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