Meanwhile the people living out-, side of the walled city are suffering heavily. Men and women are rob-Wed in the streets at the point of rule and revolver. The most ingenious devices ure used by the military commanders to secure their ends in this way. This morning Soldiers range ap the various hotels ju the town and told them that a stain was leaving for Shanghai at nine o'clock. The military saw to it that the rumour was spread well around the town, with the result That when nine o'clock arrived some hundreds of countrypeople were on the platform with everything they Possessed fu the world, Loping to
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