The concessions last night were again crowded with refugees from Hankow native city. Most of the reads leading out of the concessions were barbed wired or sandbagged jand a large guard of Hankow Volunteers was standing by all night. Nothing unusual however occurred. Marines from H. M. S. Despatch have laid a field telephone me this morning from the ship to [the Volunteers' Headquarters.
One other item of news which is interesting is the new light which thrown on the state of affairs Marshal Wu found when he arrived in this centre last week from the North. He found an army state of disintegration. The troops Lave hag no pay for several months is broken and that they have no stomach' for a fight.
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