New Motor Road and Boats td the Lake City From Our Own Cornesconoent Huchow, Che, Nov. 15, Huchow, city of some 200,000 people, the centre of the silk ins dustry of northern Chekiang, growing in wealth, population, and im= portance, has throughout its history, suffered from one serious drawback which has impeded its progress and is even now still more than a me-mary. This has been the lack of convenient and speedy means of ter course with the outside world, Situated in the midst of a large and fertile plain, five miles south fof the Great Lake, Huchow is an inland city, though inland not so Jor probable ther units, Theiv lender, General ud since that. year "has reincorporation into somehow got a rude awakening|tion of the province of more or|Xv0t0, discussed many important! many that this cool mountain re- and sateen an canine At one time it was thought by much in dista Vu" Ya-lung escaped with a band] cos veen under the control of) Nd vital "questions 1 cagenis tort would be a nice place.to re- Up to within a few years, the only, of several hundred men.
Chink" communists whose one Communism? There will the Pacific, on the Pacifc of former days had been Ta never be] tire to after the burden and heat means of travel between tt and the The engagement, mentioned above, ambition is to make Kiangsi a mo-down and the time for rest and chan; outside world had been by the between these troops and the|del of Soviet Russia, slow-moving, man-propelled booty Government. forces was quite Terror now reigns throughout] Om thousand" communists cornel et"Tocrerd to quiet dove of retires], tte, overloaded and dilatory severe, according to eyewitnesses. the whole province and it is almost Jown suddenly on, the city of ment on Kuling and nov a few had aunen-crain, The hundred or more wounded were brought to Anking and distributed among the hospitals of the city for treatment. Most of the wounds were said to be caused by machine guns, though some were from shell fragments.
General Fang Tseh was also brought here and we learned his story. After his abduction, he was put en a horse and closely guarded by the mutinous troops as they car ried him toward the northwest. Not Jong after leaving Anking, in going over some very mountainous country, the horse slipped and fell, breaking General Fang's thigh and gashing his forehead. He was attended by the "doctors" of the brigade (not expert orthopedists) put ina litter and carried rapidly over the rough roads, following the Fetreating troops. His sufferings must have been intense and his food of the roughest and scantiest the country had been picked lean by the soldiers ahead of him.
Reaching Hoshanhsion after days of forced marches, he had four days" rest, after which the return journey in this direction was begun, inding with his liberation at Taihw and arrival in Anking, 26 days, after the accident. When seen the day of arrival he was bright, in good spirits and made light of his sufferings, which must have been intense; the reverse of the attitude usually experienced and one wholly admirable, Your correspondent was much struck with the General's sporting spirit, The fracture of the thigh, not having boon set, was in bad shape and he is now' supposed to be in Shanghai secking expert treatment, though rumour says he is still here,
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