The Archive · 1924

Chi's Forces

Mr. A. L, Troy, a Soochow resident] who is working as a volunteer surg-fecal assistant at Soochow Hospital, on his arrival in Shanghai on Monday, told the "North-China Daily News" that 15,000 wounded had through the hospital since the ing began.

Most of the eases due to me gun nly @ small proportion apto have been injured by. shrapnel, "L should like to remove an ime pression which seems to prevail in Shanghai regarding the conduct of the "Kiangsu troops and their Northern allies. The soldiers, both in the provincial division: and those from the nor! have been well behaved. The storjes of looting on anything but a minor scale when perhaps a few men have got out of hand, are quite untrue. At Toast that is the consensus of competent foreign opinion on our side of the lines. Missionaries and others in Nanking have the sam good word to say for all the forces under Marshal Chi Hsieh-yuan, "They are well disciplined, too.""

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