The "Nottingham Evening Stand-ani of September 6 adds a romantic to the war news from Shange Nero fiddled while Rome burned, Jand last night Shanghai's foreign jeolony danced in gay abandon while desperate battle was going on-between the rival Tuchuns less than 120 miles away.
In spite of the distant booming Jof the guns, all day and into the evening, foreign Shanghai is gay. Dances' are in full swing at the jeabarets, the movie houses ave full, and big prize fights are being staged.
The Paris of the Far East is following the example of its care-free sister on the banks of the Seine during the dark days of the German Jadvance, by showing no anxiety over the possibility that the hostile forces outside would enter the city.
Refugees are pouring in the large towns, women carrying their babies and sleeping in the streets and alley ways. The canals and rivers. ave choked with their boats, and the refugees are said by the authorities to Ibe more a menace than the soldier Shanghai is the scene of much that is pitiful, The vietins of the war, mostly women and children, having belong they could carry, left the scene of the battle with such
walk aimlessly and dazed through the streets or drop down exhausted where they stand. There is no relief for them and everyone seems calmly indifferent to their plight.
Yuan, the Kiangsu Tuchun, has issued a proclamation which is being.
related among the forees of his rivals, offering 50,000 dollars to anyone who will hand over Lu Yung-hsian, the Chekiang Tuchun, dead or alive.
_He places a similar amount at the ispospal of any officer of the oppo. ing forees who shall desert and bring: a regiment over to his side, 'Twenty thousand dollars will be paid for a piece of tickd artillery, 20,000 for an wroplano—he might uy new ones for less—and 1,000 for a mad Finally, we months' pay is promised to ordinary soldiers who desert to his side,
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