1am not ashamed to say that I was among the leading members of the retreat and I ran for my very life. I have never heard such a pandemonium. It was a regular pantomime battle, our troops fung as they ran, the bullets whis-zing by and hitting the road everywhere. It seems a miracle that hone of us: were injured, for the Kachins were lying in ditches 100 yards away firing for all they were worth. We could distinctly see the puffs of smoke, and in some places they were standing up and firing. We must have made a glorious t, on the elevated road. Chen ing, our Tengyueh manager, lad a bullet through the rim of his hat, the cook a bullet between his legs. He was weeping bitterly when at last we stopped. I managed to seize a frantic pony and scramble on, but was thrown into a ditch und wrenched my knee. My" next effort was more successful and I caught a mule and was able to hang About a_mile from Kanai stopped and collected our party together. There were remarkably few casualties, a few soldiers wounded and all our party untouched, The total killed and wounded among the Chinese we were told, The was about 20.
Kachin
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