Storm Troops Assisted by Large Junks: Fierce Hand-to-Hand Fighting: Awkward Plight of American Marine A Shanghai visitor from the up-river reaches tells a very graphic story of the storming and subsequent fall of Chungking during the third week in October, whill resulted in the eviction of Gen. Yang Sen from the stronghold. This henchman of Wu Pei-fu, who is rated as the ablest of his commanders as well as being one of the foremost strategists of China, had held possession of the city, much to the anger of the Szechuanese, for several months and though his line of communications along the Yangtze had been severed, he still remained master of the port. The native troops had besieged him. and had cut off all supplies until living conditions within the city were something terrible, there being hardly enough rice to keep the inhabitants from starvation, but they suffered loyally, knowing that their friends on the outside were doing all possible to assist them in their plight. Food became so scarce that the price of rice, the staple*food, quadrupled and only the rich could purchase doles at a time. One foreign taipan to relieve the want of his staff bought flour and under his supervision they made 'a sort of dumpling, not at al] the sort of sustenance customary, but nevertheless it gave strength to carry on. Those without funds and.even some with money virtually were at the point of death.
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