Anking Quiet Enough: Nanking's Nomince a Pi From Oun OWN CoRREsroNDENT
Anking, Any Oct. 27.
It was a great surprise to us living in Anking to see the heading Mutiny in Anking" in the "North-China Daily News" some time ago, and to hear that the five foreigners here were being protected by a Chinese gunboat! Everything has bee Peaceful here for some time and the foreign community,—numbering something under twenty, has had no need to be protected.
No news of fighting near by had reached us, nar were wounded men brought to the city to our knowledge. It is true that General Vu Ya-tung, the commander of a bri-ade of Geneval Fang Chen-Wa's troops, when ordered by Nanking to turn over his conymand to General Pang Tech, had, by remarkable craftinesa, made him a prisoner and fear tied him off. But the tale that these troops had been surrounded Jand had surrendered, setting: Fang Tseh free is untrue, The brigade is somewhere between here and Honan with Fang Tsoh still in custody. En rowe it looted the city of Chien shan for three days, but this does not seem to have caused a ripple here in Anking, so used is every one teypillage and rapine.
To-day (October 27) the city has many new soldiers, as a division of the 1th Route Army is said to have arrived yesterday. The street leading to the former Governor's yamen was Hned with them—this morning, each man armed with a hand machine-gun. We hear it is becatise of the arrival. of General Shih You-san, the now Chairman of the Provincial Committes. He was formerly, one of Fang Vu-hsiane's men and is having his new allegi-Jance strengthened by the, gift of this plum. This evening a missionary has just returned from Taihu ving left there precipitately last night. Ie reports that the above mentioned troops under Vu Ya-tang Jare returning from the north to that city presumably to loot it. The hsin magistrate and merchant mil-tio have fled in haste at the approach fof these marauders and the whole city is now in abject terror.
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