Yunnanfu, April 24.
now possible to give a few details of the manner in which the former governor Ku Ping-chen met his death.
When Hu Reh-yn, the general in command of Tang Chi-yao's troops, passed through Yiliang on his way to Yunnanfu it was decided by Ku and his generals to make another attack on the former place in the hopes of separating Tang who was coming up from AmicLeo, from the main body of his army.
The attempt was at first entirely successful, but General Hu Reh-yn who had just entered Yunnanfu immediately despatched by train the main body of his army in order to save the situation, and owing to the fact that the late acting governor Kin, who had retired from Yunnanfu with about 2.000 _m failed to respond to Ku Ping-chen's orders to make another attack on the city of Yunnanfu. in order to draw of some of Hu Reh-yn's troops Ku Ping-chen had to suffer another reverse and this led to his final undoing. He was compelled to beat another retreat from the vicinity of Yiliang and in doing so became separated from the main body of his army who had fled in the direction of Kuhtsing.
Ku and some members of his staff were surrounded in the hill by a band of bandits fighting for Tang and escape became impossible. It appears that Ku's bodyguard strongly urged him to escape and they would fight a way through the cordon, but this he flatly refused to do, and divesting himself of his outer clothing he commenced to help his men to serve the two guns he had with him. Presently a shot wounded him in the arm, and again his men exhorted him to try and escape, but again he refused when another shot wounded him in the leg and brought him to earth. His men offered to carry him to a hiding place, but he seems to have become furious at this suggestion and drawing a revolver ordered his men to save themselves and threatened to shoot any who disobeyed his orders. At this, seeing that it was hopeless to hold out any longer, his men fled, some hiding in ditches and some in the brushwood and one two finally made their escape to Yunnanfu bringing these details with them.
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