When Gen. Hu Ching-yi was eventually established here, there was a gentleman's agreement between the present rivals that Gen, Han was to remain west of Loyang. and Yuhsien; at least that is the story that one hears this matter of fact Yuhsien was to have been a sort of buffer state that neither party would occupy. When Gen, Han Vu-kuen began to meo porate the brigand bands thet hak Han's Defeat: Telegrams to Peking On the 27th the Mipinghwei of Kaifeng met in a very repmsentative gathering, and determined to send telegrams to Peking and rud a committee to meet Gen. Sun Yueh, who was already arrived at Hsiang-hsien, near Weihuei, the Jjunetion of the Kin-Han and Tao-Chine railways. This committee was to pray the Peking Extraordinlary Peace Commissioner to do utmost to cause hostilities to cease and, no doubt, to assist the society the story of which hax never been put into shape for the public. I do not know the facts well enough to relate that story, but this one fact is seemingly well people lost theb chays that the struggle went on. Some put the death' roll 7,000. The American Mis sind his wife who had just returned to the city after the earlier inroads of the bands at present in Han's ins, were let down from the city wall in baskets and made their wat te Hsuchang on the railway:
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