Meanwhile it is practically impossible to ascertain what the Mukden troops are doing and why: they are delaying their advance. The railway staff, who, ax 1 reported in my last despateh, lett Changchow while that station was occupied the Kiangsu troops, got back again yesterday morning and much their surprise found that there was not a single soldier within miles, The reason was that the Kiangsu troops, hearing of the advance their enemies to a spot just the other side of Tanyang, had collected all the trains they could lay hands. and fled to Wusih with all possible haste. Ae far as T can gather the Mukden forces have made no advance, on Changchow up to date though there is nothing in the world to atop them, The breakdown train was to be despatched some time to-day. Our supplies are running very low, ant many things, ineludi are completely To procure food in Wusih is out of the question. The only food here ft for foreigners to eat is locked up in the walled city, the prospects of the gates doing opened are small indeed, Trying to Enter the City Yesterday I attempted to get through to our Wusih correspondent, Mrs. C. M. Lee, who is shut with her husband and a number of other missionaries in the walled city. This was the first time I had.attempted to enter the city, and as shots were coming from all around: and inside throughout the davy T confess 1 did not altogether relish the journey: T+'found the outside town full of soldiers, houses on fire and others smouldering and-in ruins. In the street. leading from the station I passed the bodies of three civilians, lying where they had been shot. Two were elderly men and one, from the. huge pool of blood and the nature of the wound, I concluded to have been either knifed or bayoneted. My destination was the South Gate of the walled city, where I had arranged by telephone to meet one of Dr. Lee's staff, who possessed a permit with which it was hoped he could get outside and wait for me. As the South Gate isa long way from the station, and all the rieshas have been commandeered by the military, T had to walk and was thus able to et some idea of the local situation. "As T proceeded further on and got to the narrow road which skirts the wall, T passed two more civilians wounded and groaning, one quite a lad. They were unattended and the townsfolk are either "unwilling or have not the courage to tend them. I, of course, could do nothing. Finally I reached my Jdestination, passing swarms soldiers on the way, The South Gate is a water gate, with a mall stone bridge running over the creek, parallel to the wall. Evidently my man had been wnable to get through fur there was noone waiting for me, though there were one or two people standing on the bridge. The wall ix at least 30 ft. high. and " big crowd were top looking over the battlements They included some five or six med policemen. One of the men on the bridge said something to me which T was unable to understand, He followed up by giving me a Vicious push, which T. undiplomati ally enough, returned with interest.
Into "I notice a orange coloured band on his sleeve which denoted he was a plain-clothes policeman, He shouted up to his comrades on the wall, who motion-me to go away,
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