Of late, the tables have turned, and the Sining people have feared the worst, They can never forget the dreadful happenings of the last great Mohammedan Rebellion of 1895/6, when Sining was the scene of war and murder, fire and pillage, when literally tens of thousands of people, Mohammedan and Chinese alike, lost their lives. It is during the past four months that the change has come. It was rumoured that the Kuominchun (Feng Vu-hsiang's army) were coming up to Sining to take possession. This caused anxiety and trouble among the! soldiers. Some seemed to favour it, and some did rot. It is diffeult to know just how the General himself} felt about it at the time. To make 1 long story short, there was a divi-jon, and altogether bout 2.500) soldiers revolted. The revolting. took place at intervals. Some six for seven camps left, the last, lot taking their departure about three weeks ago, choosing the dead " of night to get away. This was not! done without much firing of guns, and terror among the city people. There was not much sleep that, night.
Gradually all became. peaceful again and it was not until the morning that we learned what had happened. Strange to say all the different lots of soldiers left without doing any looting in the city itself. This was confined to the country! places as they went along. All the revolted soldiers have gone over to Hochow, many of them still being, on the main road between Sining, and Lanchow, holding up all trafic and killing right and left.
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