The fighting continued for two hours or more and then gradually subsided, and finally the aroused community settled down for a another nap before the day dawned.
At daybreak it was learned that the fighting was caused by former Northern soldiers who had been taken into the Nationalist army, but who had become dissatisfied and wanted to show their loyalty to their former leader Chang Tsung-chang, and to the Northern cause. That they were successful seems evident as carly morning saw small detachments of them leading prisoners to
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