July 29.
Present times in Wuchow are now a little more normal, insomuch that the timid folks and handsome ladies who rushed to and remained in hiding since the 17th instant, when the Kuangtung forces entered the city, have returned to their homes. Everything in the city and immediate district remains quiet. News was to hand last week of fighting between the Kuangtung and Kuangsi forces at a place some five miles' distance up the River Fu. Troops and supplies continue to arrive from Kuangtung, and the larger of their cruisers and gunboats remain in port, the smaller ones having gone further into the interior. Most' of the river steamers are now running as usual to and from Hongkong and Canton, but not so with Nanning and other interior ports. On the 26th, Dr. H. L. Clift left for Nanning by an A.P.C. oil carrying vessel, and the only vessel to leave for that port for a week or more. The doctor had been in Hongkong for some six months in charge of the Matilda Hospital in place of Dr. Sanders, who has been to-England. The troublesome times on the river had caused the doctor to complete a whole fortnight on the Hongkong-Wuchow steamer, a week of it having been spent at Samshui.
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