Yunnanfu, April 18.
The events of the past few weeks have followed each other with such rapid succession that it is almost impossible to give a consecutive account of what has really happened.
Only three weeks ago the éx-governor Ku Ping-chen and his party were holding the reins of government in full confidence that they waild be able to keep out 'Tang Chi-yao and his party who were fighting to recover the power they lost just 14 months ago; and now Ku is lying' dead at Yiliang while at least 30 per cent. of his officers and men have been slain or wounded while the rest are fugitives from a vengeance that is the more terrible because it is being executed by the bandits whom Tang has employed to help him in his desperate enterprise.
How the government army were so easily defeated is a mystery so difficult to fathom that one does not intend to attempt it, though it may be worth while to mention some of the events leading up to the debacle.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.