At o'clock, Thursday night your correspondent embarked for Chungshing which was reached just after 1 o'clock on Friday ing. The rest of the night was spent at a Chinese inn. We were too tired to be fustidiotis and were toon asleep.
After breakfast brought in from 4 restaurant on the street the base pital a seri Chinese houses about in courtyards ind passages. The operating room ut the entrance, the principal's desk doing service as a table. The wounded wore sleeping on the floor, olde by. fon straw scattered Toosely. about. Within the other rooms long planks had been stretd on. trellis and covered with strets, and the wounded soldiers put close as they could et together, one row against each wall with narrow aisle between. The chief surgeon stated there were over 200 wounded in this hospital and about 100 in two other similar places in Changshing, 'Those needing operation were to be sent on to Huchow, 30 being ready to go ar soon as' boats could be obtained for transportation.
The Tents of Israel At @ o'clock we left for the front, about 1 miles away. We went by launch to Kaipa (or Chipo) a little fishing village on the ede of the Great Lake, Here were assembled fleet of boats of all Kinds house-bouts, cargo boats, water-police boats and a canal gunboat. Three miles down the coast of the lake another gunboat was anchored about 700 yards offshore. Ovr pass was inspected by the sentry at the landing who ushered us into the presence of the officer in charge of the station. After inspection we were permit with a warning reger danger. After a walk of three miles slong a stone-covered country. path, which is the main line of Tue Scr-Masor Says—
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