'The gun-boats in port during. 'Thursday afternoon seemed to be rebaring for another adventure on Kho high seas and the rumour went abroad that Wu Pei-fu was a going away, but while it mitted that' the war vessels set out on another expedite the coast, it was most denied, that Marshal Wu had any thought of leaving again to go anywhere. The state in which he found things on his return from Hulutao had fully demonstrated what a helpless rabble jan army could become without a competent head. Having restored feonfidence, ordered he new arrivals to the front and issued his orders, for a counter offensive on Wednes~ day morning, the dynamic Marshal set to work on his correspondence: a veritable army of telegraph tine, field wireless set at the station and the gunboat sets, he read and ied to 700 telegrams that afternoon and evening and was then off to the from at daylight on Thursday morning, October 18.
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