Brom Our Own Corrsspondent, Hankow, Nov. 1.
1g heavy losses in a couple of shes yesterday ai being badly used this morning, the Royalists have, as last Havkow. They dropped shell after shell of Krapp's latest explosives into the city and within two or three minutes in a blaze, helped fal north wind which sprang up over night.
Consideratle excitement is entertained as to the fate of the large Red Cross hospital situated Wesleyan Mirsion Compound within the city. Altogether some 150 wounded are being attended there. The foreign doctor has spent nights in the Concession and days io the hospital. In that sense, therefore, happily, he was here when the fires broke out. Tiere is also a school of blind boys on the adjoining compound.
Both sides had gosranteed protection to the hospital aod would we hope, ander ordinary circumstances, have falfilled their pledges, bat firs makes no guarantees and it therefore decided 'o send a relief party as speedily as possible, Some dozen or more doctors, volunteers and mit ies, together with s squad of international Red-('ross men boarded the Red Cross launch and made their way up the Han.
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