The local military commander has again issued a proclamation forbid-Ging conscription of coolies into the army. There are at present far too mary for what is needed, he says, and some are being returned to their homes. Recruiting of new troops at the Shanghai-Nanking railway station also has been suspended, The native police authorities have ordered the Protectionary Force members to afford due protection to the members of the Chinese Red Cross Corps who are in the course of duty.
Admiral Tu Shih-kuei, former Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese Fleet, who has been reinstated to his old position by Marshal Peicfu, left for Nanking on Satur-y_night.
Four hundred chests of ammunition which had been brought here from the Woosung Forts, were transported to Nanking on Saturday.
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