After meeting with reverses in other parts of Hunan Tan Yen-kai has een obliged to retreat. He arrived in Chenchow to-day. Governor' Chao Hong-ti's" troops are following Tan's army in an effort to drive it out of the province, and it is reported that Chao's men have come as far south as Leiyang.
The Chenchow government middle school occupies the old examination thaiis. Yesterday a telegram from Tan was received in which he ordered the several hundred students to be dismissed because he would occupy their quarters. Some years ago while Chenchow was the southern capital of the province Tan occupied these quarters. If Chao's troops do not pursue Tan as far south as this, the defeated general doubtless will remain here. But it is generally believed that Chao's forces will not stop their pursuit until Tan and his men are clear across the Kuangtung birder, pus is but forty miles from ere,
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