"Such sights and sounds as we get these days make one realize that, there is such a place as hell.
"An officer has just been in to ask us to take in 18 wounded from fa place ten li away from the city. Our Chinese children are keeping' well, but the babies are looking very white, "April 9—The battle is still raging, mostly at night, but we feel that both sides are weakening as they must do after all these days. Some one has just come in to say that early this morning the West Gate was opened a little to let some Yunnanese soldiers in, so that looks as if expected reinforcements have come from Poseh. Whether thi only of fanatics turned madmen, and the chance of running foul of such persons is not broad enough warrant such extraordinary measures as are taken in Peking.
However, the behaviour of the work here ing with These presumably to protect the Chief Executive, not to maltreat without provocation persons. who have no evil intent. But that is apparently Jan opportunity which cannot be resisted. An ugly incident occurred yesterday which in some other countries would have aroused the indignation of the entire populace. Soldiers and guards had tightened the chains along the deserted streets, and were waiting for the Provisional Chief Executive. Evidently there was a weak link one of these chains, for, suddenly, out of a side hotung, a rustic peared, riding a donkey. Perhaps it, was the donkey that frightened the armed braves stationed at the entrance to the hotung; anyway, when the twain appeared in broad view, they caused such a hue-and-ery that the donkeyman nearly fell off his steed. He looked round bewilderingly, but before he could find his bearings, was roughly knocked of his saddle, Then a stalwart trooper came up, and before the innocent trespasser had time to is feet, smote him hard sheathed scimitar, causing wound on the poor fellow's head from which the blood started to [flow freely, supposedly had tried to n fof just such incidents as this.
}will mean more fighting, or peace-terms we cannot tell."
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