On October 11, after several disappointments the foreigners were at st evacuated, after having been imprisoned since April 11 having received any mail since the commencement of the siege and after having suffered great privat tions in the Inst fow months, Six British and two Americans. (one Indy and one gentleman) decided that their duty lay in the doomed city and did not avail themselves of this opportunity of escaping. On the lecturer's admitting that he was Jone of the eight who remained he wax most heartily applauded, Things got so bad at last that a mass meeting of the citizens implore the soldiers to take a final effort against the coomy or to turn their rifles on the citizens as anything was better than the slow dear' from starvation that stared thet in the face. The sortie was made and failed miserably.
At this time about 500 people per day were dying in the streets, beand the populace were reduced to "oil cake" ordinarily used as a fertilizer for food. The price of this article rose from half a dollar to $25 per cake. At last when it looked as if the city must be surrendered the sound of guns was heard in the distance and after many an anxious day and night the news went round that the besieging army had gone vetreatir before the Ist National Army of Feng Yuchsiang. The siege had Insted 228 days and probably 20,000 or 30,000 had died within the city.
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