For a time all went well, except! that the outlook continued to be as vague as when the expedition started. But the position was satisfactory in so far ax the general was concerned, since there were fairly good supplies on the ships, discipline was excellent, and only one Teader was acknowledged—Gen, Then came the time when supplies began to get low. Funds ran out and there were stories of trafficking in arms and ammunition in order to replenish the treasury, Purthermore, the fact that the Chinese put 4 gunboat on guard over the vessels and refused to allow the to come ashore—though many of them drifted into Shanghai ina clandesting way—gra tions of life on the ships extrem irksome and finally almost unbearable. Supplies grow scantier, ness flourished on board, and hai_wax urgently appealed to for kelp, a march on the Settlement being at one time rumoured if assistance was not forthcoming. which ended nowhere, owl Chinese caution against a cither side, The Fight at Woosung Where negotiation failed intrigue! succeeded, and a few weeks ago the men on board the Mongugai, under the command of Gen. Anissimof, Went over to the, Reds and prepared to leave anchorage at Woosung. This was the occasion of the iMiputinn battle, Glebott's second in command challenging the Mongugai at the time she prepared to leave and finally opening fire when was seen that the vessel was about to proceed to Shang! did, and has since been under repair at the Kiangnan dock, her present course of events. The Red There is no doubt, of course, that the work has been accomplish: ed with Soviet money, but it was quite within the province of the Soviet to get the ships back if they could, and pay for the job, and as for the men on board, the transfer to their own country cannot but be an improvement upon their miserable condition of existence at Woosung. The Okhotsk remains, still in the command of Gen. Gleboff.
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