A day or two after Christmas, Chen Chiung-ming's Ist Division, who are still loyal to their leader, left the city, and their place was immediately taken by Shen Hung-ving's Kuangsi troops and Lo T'o's Yunnan Red-Heads, who now hold the city, in league with Lo Wen-chan and the disaffected Canton troops.
Wuchow is suffering the same miseries to which every city in the provined has grown so accustomed of late. It begins with possession by the enemy troops, then after a period of nerve-racking rumours, the enemy suddenly clears out, having helped himself liberally to anything that he considers may be useful to him in hie flight, Every
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