Bao-san's troops, delayed one day by the protracted rains and snows, was Jduly completed, and the general imsclf left this morning at ten o'clock, Your correspondent went to Hsuchowfu on the 17th and spent practically the whole night on the T.P.R, platforms waiting for a party of school-children coming home for the holidays, Speaking of the weather brings to mind the statement of a missionary doctor who said that on a recent cold night no fewer than 31 out of a carload of 80 men froze to death at or near the Hsuchowfu station. These unfortunate victims of the war are said to be some of the "prisoners" " sent morth from Foochow. They complain that the navy men rebbed them of their' clothes and at no place they allowed to disembark—this large number perishing from cold and privation,
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