On Monday night last Cheng's tevops broke camp and ran amok mong the townfolk, They embark-elon a career of pillage and nose rile Soochow FiaHTH pine, and have stripped the town are of fuodstulfs At the present rime they have surrendered thi wes to Chi, who is considering the advisability. or otherwise of me corpuvating, them in his own forees.
For six days the yates of the old city wall have been kept locked and one has passed either in or out.
result has been that food is frightfully short and the foreign population are hard put to it to find sufficient. There ix practi cally no butter to be had, very little milk, fresh or tinned, and no meal Stores from Shanghai have been held up and stores from the city Have been completely cut off. Whilst the city gate was closed one of the foreign ladies here fell Seriously ill. The only doctor to be had was locked up in the city and the Chinese refused either to let him out or other foreigners in to. fetch him. He was eventually of out by the Indy's husband, assisted by other foreigners, putting, a ladder to the wall and climbing over. The people in the city are in a state of mortal terror. So far they have managed to keep the soldiers out, but they well know that once the military get inside it will be the old story of loot and violence over again,
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