Your readers may be interested connected account of recent events in Kiukiang.
During the months of September and October while Sun Chuan-fang's: troops were in possession, marti Jaw was enforced in the native town' and it was considered advisable to' keep closed two of the four gates, which lead out of the (Concession into the Chinese streets.
For some time previous to November 4 there had been rumours that the Southerners would soon attack Kiukiang but, as the attack each time failed to materialize, the foreign inhabitants began to grow sceptical of the much advertised Southern advance. On the morning of November 4 a telephone mi age was received from Kuling stating that Licnhuatung, the village at the foot of the Kuling mountain to which summer visitors are convey. ed in moier-ears, had been captured by the Southern' forces. As, hot ever, there was no panic on the tive street, it was assumed that a party of Southern troops had been raiding behind the Northerners and Jat 2, p.m. and presently when bullets began to fly over the Concession and a rush of Chinese fugitives, civilians and terrified northern soldiers intermingled, entered through the two open iCon-cession gates, it was decided to close the gates, concentrate the women and children at a pre-arfanged rendezvous and call out the Defence Force.
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