Anfu Province all for Chibli From Our Own Correspondent Anking, July 27. fu spite of all the trouble in various parts of the country, Anking is quiet. Other places there are which enjoy freedom from fighting, but m no place surely are the people as slow to. understand their good fortune as in this city. It is 2 strange experience to be fea from all war's alarms when there is 60 much doing. Yet there has been a certain amount of strain too. The people can scarcely believe that the Anfu crowd can be engaged in a life and death struggle and yet allow this, one of their strongholds, to be out of the affair. There have been some acores. About a week ago, policemen were stem in one part of the city rushing along ordering all shops and stores to be closed. The city gate was also closed, It teems that one of the soldiers' blow-outs was ready, and about a "ying" of them were coming into the city for a picnic at the expense of the citizens. Their commander, however, -managed to persuade them to postpone the cntertainment, The Chamber of Commerce hag resuscitated the old train band idea and their men are said to at least once a night. Each shop drill each day, and parade the city supplies so many men, and those who cannot do 80, pay a certain sam for the support of someone else, We Petre tHe Hero. is surprising to find how well informed all classes are about the
Everybody knows everything about Potent squabble in the North.
And in this Anfu centre Wu Pei-fu ig the hero of all the days. Probably no man, except perhaps Li Yuan-hung has been such a hero during the life of this glorious Republic On the other hand, the most hated and detested man is Chang Chin-yao. He and his younger brother are branded for ever. Yet Chang Chin-tang is hero while this is being written. He came some days ago and Dame Runiour got busy at once. He had come threatening that unless he got $1,000,- 000, he would have to bring 15,000 troops down here, Another version is that he thought this place in danger, seeing all the Anfu troops were at Pengpu and other places. His help was refused, but some Money was given to him to tide him over a few difficulties. Now here is a man defeated and discredited, without any official position, yet he is permitted to come falling down here with a bodyguard. One would naturally think that the inhabitants, led by the Hunan Guild, would make him a presen§ of a few yards of rope,
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