following is an extract from a letter from Hankow, dated Nov-ya been on duty by the Post Office since 7 a.m, commandeering the loot which is being taken out of the city by gangs. We send it all to the police station, Cash shops acd pawn shops are those most raided. At 9.50 burt on the godown roof along si kitchen. The noise was terrific, fleet has just now began bombarding those forts down river. I expect they will get ap here to-day and then things will be bad indeed.
"All night through the city has been one red glare, The light has lighted ap Wachang so that houses could all be clearly seen, It is a terri bt, but oh! the poor peo} ell-to-do merchants and their wi A children, fleeing from the burning city and nowhere to flee to. They sit down in the road and jast barer out crying. LI too horrible for words, Where can we g0,' they ark, and we have nowhere to soggest. They are all coming on to the concession, also a great warm of bad charactore.
"This burning of the city is the work of devils, not men, It is quite unnecessary for military operations. The people, at least thoneands, had stayed believing it would be all right. That it should be thus bornt without notice, and all these thousands of noncombatants thas unnecessarily rained, is too wicked for words."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.