The situation seems to change over night and nothing seems to be known of all the movements of troops and changes that are taking place. The rumour that General Tan Yen-kai was going to leave! Chenchow seems without foundation, for the latest word is that he; will not leave until he leaves for} some place farther north. Our city has fewer soldiers in it to-day than it has had for two years past. The! Yunnan troops are on the move towards Leiyang and Hengchow,} and reports are numerous and insistent that when Wu Pei-fu leaves) Hengchow the Southerners are going to fight if necessary to obtain hold of that city.
The Hunanese troops are almost all moving toward the west, Yung-chow and Paoking. Yunnan toops are to take their place toward Neganren and the eastern front.
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