'One bright spot in the treatment of the Fengtien defeated troops stands out in an incident that took place at Lanfeng. A group of some 500, fleeing from Kaifeng during the' night, reached Lanfeng about: mid-morning. They were worn out and were sitting down resting, when suddenly a terrific fusillade of rifle shots frightened them 0 that they fled in all directions.
ing ti les behind. They thought it was a large force of men that had attacked them, but it turned out to be a company of some 250 Yiehun cavalry. The latter soon rounded them up and they were led through the town to a temple near the west gate, Here they were told to sit down in the temple courtyard, and the cavalry 0. C. lectured them. "He said they yre in his power and he could have them—shot, he was not going to do that but treat them well. He was surprised that they: should fight for a man like Chang Tso-lin, and they were never to do that again. The little round Fengtien caps they wore he simply hated 80 they must at once throw them away, which they did at once.
He said he would take into his! unit any Shantung men amongst them, for Shantung and Honan people were the same, but that the Fengtien men would be sent on their way home. When he asked that all 'Shantung' men who wished to join him should raise their hands quite one half of the men did so. They were then fed, and taken care of for two or three days, when the Feng-ien men were escorted off to the be der of the province on their way home, and the others received into the Yichun cavalry.
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