Word was received by the Hankow Chinese Chamber of Commeres that the brigands who are still in possession of the Five Ancestors Hill near Kwangtsi, which town was recently looted, are planning an attack on "Huangmel, and that Wasuch will be in a critical position if the troops recently sent there are withdrawn, The orders from the Generalissimo demand the despatch of those troops to. the front, but the Wusueh merchants ask the "Hankow Chamber to warn the authorities that disaster will overtake Wusueh if this 1s done,
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