Two other foreign observers of good standing arrived on the scene this juncture and as there was still no access to the Governor we decided to go up to the front and see how things were going; but General Kung emerged from the conference and vetoed the whole scheme. Mr. Wen exercised all his powers of persuasion and after a good 15 minutes of consistent eloquence, the General good-natured-ly gave in and called a certain Colonel Wang, a sta officer, to go tus, We started down the rail-wy track and were soon filing alo in an endless canyon of ears—eve thing from a Tientsin-Pukow dint car down to the shabbiest flat car, Here was an explanation of the ear famine at every point up the line. The car that goes to the front never comes back. " All the officers who fare not at the front and all the hangers-on of the army seize them and live in them. Those that are not habitable are used as warehouses for army stores. Here also we ran into an excruciatingly new smell which fairly gassed our whole party Some said corpses, others had other zotanations; but Golonel Wang said was simply "hsien tsai, of pickle of potatoes vegetables, zone wrong.
We emerged finally from this of cars and saw straight stretch of track before us, with a locomotive about a mile down the track and beyond that three steel cars, These as it transpired, were the containers of the famous perambulating guns, which are pushed up to the front at night, give the
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