To return to the war—the 9th! Division, which held a section of the Kvominchun line east of Tungchow, krew weary of the war on the morning. of April 16 and fell back before what one Journal rhetorically described as "the fury of the Allied <orlaught" to Peking and thence to the Yellow Temple north of Peking. Those of us who went outside the east gates of the city to see them go past Kot some idea of the horrors of war from the scores of cartloads of casualties that went by-—shastly caves of blistered feet sec sioned by. a whole day's hard going in reverse! We saw other hundreds and hundreds these stalwart defenders of the people's rights who had not. been able to commander a riesha to haul their bedding nor a farmer to carry their rifles, but who struggled glons erimnly and manfully under their own jon, which is just Jeaving us to-day, after much coaxing, for Nanyuan, was original wethered together between Luanchow Tientsin on the Peking-way by General Wa in the Autumn of 1924, und was made up of stragglers from Wo Peiefu's 3rd, 14th and 20th Divisions who surrendered to the Fengtienites, General Wa_ Kuang-hsin created from this material a brigade of guards for the Chief Excutive and brought the new unit to Peking, About 4,000 of the men were rotal ed in Peking while another fr more were garrisoned in Tung: chow.
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