The report I sent you on Saturday that the Tuchun was expected to leave the city that night reminds one of the telegrams issued from the front during the war in which both sides claimed a victory at the same place and both were correct—the hour of the day at which the wires were despatched differed. By the time that my letter was leaving Changsha, the situation had altered. In the morning, Chang Chin-yao was fully determined to start for the front and personally lead his troops—how far his words were mere bluff, how far genuine I have no idea. At
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