'A Last Stand by Chang's Men at Route Ghisi: Then Surrender and Internment: Thousand, ix of Soldiers in the Settle. ment: Chinese Police Controlling Nantao Wy Tuesday saw the and of the fighting. The turmoil and excitement of the previous day's battle was over, Chang's soldiers have been split up, the great majority have surrendered, and thousands have thrown themselves on the mercy of the foreign Settlements. For them in internment camp and free feeding by the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce. Their plight is not a happy one, but compared with the misery and desolation they have left behind them in the country over which they fought, and the villages, which they burned and looted, they have little of which to complain 'The weather added to the ener-gloom in che country. 'Thos '0: the people lacking the intelligence to seek refuge with the foreigner, spent their time wandering over the jelds, with nowhere to go and no work' to do. Their homes are in ruins, their goods stolen or destroy-fed. They are the real victims of the fighting. Neither side spared them, both wides looted and burned their' homes and impressed them into their service as exrrying coolies.
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