Large crowds are to be seen daily outside the Central Bank, where lunger notes are exchanged for ai equivalent amount in one dollar notes, This is necessary because shop-keepers are that purchases must be exactly equivalent value to the notes tendered they are refusing to give small coi or copper change.
General Hsia Tao-yin, after tearing up the permanent derailing a train 10 mi Seinning, has retreated in the direction of Tunghan, General Tang Song-chi's victory in Honan has apparently been won a heavy cost judging from the], fact that at least 2,000 wounded soldiers have arrived at Hankow in the past few days. All the hospitals fare crammed and many of the casualties are in a very filthy and verminous condition.
The Hankow Military Council claim that their forces are continuing to progress towards Chengchow, but are extremely vague concerning Council are recruiting one fifth of the males employed in Hankow hongs—Reuter.
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