The Northern troops evacuated Pengpu and vicinity about three weeks ago. This withdrawal was announced in some of the Shanghai papers "some considerable time be: fore it had taken place. In leaving. Hoaiyuen, 25 1i from Pengpu, they set fire to the main business street along the river Ko, burning, according to reliable reports, about, 2,000 sections of buildings, including about 800 houses, Thus, thousands of people have lost their all on the eve of winter, In this civil war, matter which side wins itis always the people who suffer.
Up to the present, the river route between this city and Pengpu has been infested. by bandits, and commerce only can be carried on by boats paying heavy protection charges. These systematically were levied. The steam launch service long has been suspended, in the first place on account of all the together-barr Inunches being commandeered for military service, but now on account jot banditry. About three weeks (89, 4 Munch made a trial trip from this end, but was held up by bandits three times before reaching Péngpe, and so far the attempt has not been repeated, Southerners Do Good Work Yesterday, we learned from the man on the street that, since the Southerners took over Pengpu, they have been ruthlessly suppressing the bandits who have been interfering with the river commerce, that many have been captured and instantly executed, and that now the route is comparatively This morning, a member of a firm the head of which has gone to Shanghai to purchase goods, and who went by way of Luchowfu and Wuhu, and expected to return that way, told me that now he will be able' to return with his goods by way of Pukow and Péngpy, which is the direct way. If this'ig so may hope soon to hear the launches whistling again,
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