On Thursday General Chin and his staff came along in their special car from Hsuchow and Friday the local troops were formally taken over to the Allied side. For this performance the 16th and 18th Mixed Brigades were "formed up in a hollow square outside the: north gate and General Chin came down from the station and made them a speech. A few hand gre-nodes were thrown to make a bit of noise and add _impressiveness presumably to the ceremony, but that part of it did not appeal to three country.people near whom the bombs fell and they were still running when last seen. The 18th Brigade looked very warworn and disreputable with far too large a proportion of little boys, but General Kuo's own, made being well set up and well drilled. Especially interesting were the two companies of lancers with their pretty_pentional colours. These were not mounted troops but no doubt these Iances might be of very good service in some of the mixed kind of combats which occur
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