Dilapidated Gang in Control for a Week: Last Thing in Filth ros Oc' Own ConsesPonpest Swatow, Oct. 2.
After having been in occupation of the port for exactly one week, the Red forces quietly withdrew during the wight of September 30, and, though it is now the second day since they left, no other troops as yet have come in to take their place, It is eateaordinarily difficult to get any reliable information as to what] has happened, or is likely to happen. On the 30th, large numbers of wounded—four or five hundred, at east were brought down the river Kityang, from which it fluterred that they had been badly beaten in a fight with the Cantoncee somewhere in that region; from the fact - that "thei lines of retreat were to Chaoyang—presumably making for Lufung—and towards the Fukien border, and not up the railway to Chaochowfu, it may be inferred that} they did not feel sure of thei of communications in that direction, Chaochowfe also was absolutely evacuated at the same time, but there is nep yet any certain i tion that the Cantonese have occupied it, The town at present is being patrolled by "white" members of the labour unions, under the direction of] police There was some insubordinate official of the old
discriminate shooting yesterday morning, when these gentry set out] to pay off their score against Red comrades, and the headquarters. of the Farmers' Union was set on fire and pretty well burned out, Otherwise, there hi been little incident.
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