Marshal Chi Hsieh-yuan left Nanking for the front on Monday! night and has been in personal command of his troops since. The report. which comes from Nanking from a most authentic source does not state the city at which Marchal Chi hss made his headquarters.
At three o'clock on Thursday afternoon the officials at Shanghai North station had no information through from Nanziang as to the course of events. About this time, a couple of troop trains, which came in from Lunghua, were rushed off to Nanziang, the two leaving within half an hour, and carrying about 1,000 men each. The first contingent seemed a fairly usefal body of men, but the second was very mixed crowd, poorly clad and equipped, and of all ages, some mere youngsters and others in the neighbourhood of 50. The men had all-paper umbrellas strapped across their backs, and they wore Rimsy sandals, while the officers, all smartly uniformed, paraded in' the customary soft slippers. Nearly' fall the men were equipped with rifles of an old pattern, some of the Martini type, and fitted the short bayonet, while a few carried the Mauser pistol. Both carried a nondescript collec-of stores, and one had three loaded" with—small-arm_ ammunition,
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