May 6.
The long suspense was broken Inst night or just before sunset yesterday. A small gunboat came slowly up the river to Siangtan and Janded a search party. They came into the City not knowing what to expect, but finding all the enemy soldiers gone, sent word to the opposite side ' of the river and] Yeh Kai-hsing's soldiers came back again after having been away only a month.
The day before Tang Shen-chi's Séldiets evidently were looking for
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