From telegrams, reports, and messengers, we were now able to gather what we believed had really taken place, Tachienlu is approached from the outside world by three passes all about 10,000 feet high. Fighting took place on all these passes and the outside army were determined on taking Tachienlu On two of the passes the fighting was very severe and the border troops were withdrawn from the Ma-an-shan to ussist on the Chu-basso pass. With practically one defending the Ma-an-shan a small detachment of Lan's men erossed the pass took possession of the bridge at Liutingchiao, only two days from Tachienlu. By doing this General Lan's troops cut the border soldiers off from. Tachienlu. It was General Sen's opinion that they would continue their march and come on to the frontier. With the Chinese officials leaving the city there was nothing left for the Chamber of Commerce to do but to give the advancing army a heary recoption and accede to whatever demands they would make, begging that they would spare the people and destroy no property. With this arrangement the day closed and the night of tension began,
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