Ten days ago soldiers from Kueiteh, here and at Lui, assisted by the local citizen organization, the Hongchanghui, unitedly attacked him at Wuhsiangchi and fought for a whole day and night, so that people could not travel, and -when we arrived at Chengchow, where we stopped for three days, we feared we could not get home. When we got to Kueiteh we learned that the tufei had been defeated and the leaders had fled, which, alas, is generally the case. But we met 500 troops just outside the market returning to Kueitsh and they had a cart-Jead of bound culprits and two cart-loads of women and girls re-
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