Norwich bulletin., 1920-11-06


 bullets kept whining overhead, and I must confess that my 2S0 pounds never seemed to fill up quite so much space as before A couple of Anfu guns were still keeping at it in that sector and the shells were exploding at intervals of | about quarter of mile to the left and | rear of us. It was the first time I had heard the shriek of shell and I can not say that l find it all a musical | sound. was vary much relieved when | the major decided he had seen enough | and we started back
 Green Troops Fight Brayely. Gen. Wa continued to drive back the | Anfu Hanks all that day. Friday, and | during the night, and by Saturday morn ing his men were in touch with the ex- treme outposts of the Anfu reserves on 1 both sides of the Liu Ii Ho, ten miles to the rear of their front line. Friday afternoon Gen. Gnu made desperate attempt to break the Chihli center but in spite of their heavy losses, the green 1 troops (many of them merchant and i student volunteers serving without payl l in order to drive out the Anfu club held l like veterans.
 The major and I crept up the railway as far as the. shrapnel would allow us 1 to watch this attack, but owing to the i ! Hatness of the country we could not sec much. We could, however, get some idea l of the desperate character of the iight- ing from the large number of wounded i brought in Some of the walking wound ! ed stopped to rest as they came in and We had a number of interesting conver- i satonS with them The impressive thing about these men was their understanding 1 of the issues involved in the battle, their spirit of patriotism Ga new thing ill China) and their intense loyalty to Gen. Wu. It gave me a feeling of optimism l for. as had never felt before
 Anfus Desert to ChihIis.
 Just at this juncture a brigade of Fengtien (Manchurian) troops arrived from the south to reinforce the Chihli troops and were immediately thrown into the line. Shortly afterwards the troops opposing them, brigade of the Anfn 1 Fifteenth division realizing that their case was hopeless, deserted and came over to the Chihli side, making victory absolutely certain.
 Priest Brings Letter.
 Just before noon on Saturday a French lag was waved from a point on the Anfu center, and as firing ceased a Chinese Catholic priest came forward with let ter for General ,Wu from Gen. Gnu Tung Feng. Luckily the major and had just gone forward on our second visit to the fropt lines and we arrived there just as the priest came in. As he was waiting for Gen. Wu to reply to the letter, he came to us and asked if we
 poke French. Happily Major Philoon lad been in France during the war, and 2ad picked up quits a bit of French, so the priest talked to us very freely and We were able to get a lot of information from him as to conditions in the Anfu camp. Gen. Gnu had offered to with . draw his forces and retreat if Gen Wu would not press the attack In reply Gen. Wu agreed to grant an armistice of 24 hours in the center but not on the flanks and he gave Gen. Gnu until noon , the next day for his troops to lay down their arms while he was to come and give himself up in person. So the priest was sent back with this message.
 Estimating the Losses.
 This armistice gave IS a good chance to get out and estimate losses. As near Q as we could find out Gen. Wu had lost about 100 killed and 250 wounded, while V the Anfu losses had been more than Q double that number eve have since f learned that owing to losses in the panic ] at Liu Ii Ho and to heavier propor- tionate losses on the Hanks and in the r center the total Anfu loss must have e been at least 2500 killed and wounded) Anfu Troops in Panic
 Meanwhile on the Hanks the Chihl = troops had driven up behind the Anfuites ! as far as Liu Lii Ho. though still num- v. Der of miles fro mthe railway os both / sides. General Chihi Kuiei, nephew ot |, Yuan Chi Juis was in command of the ', Anfu reserves there and had his head Equarters at the railway station. Hear O ing the sound of firing out on theil Q Hanks, his troops seem to have been sud. denly seized with panic, and leavins guns ammunition and stores, partly railway yards they fled across the long high railway bridge just north of tn, station toward Peking
 General Escapes on Locomotive
 Gen. Yuan himself jumped inc a loco
 motive, cut it loose from the train tc which it had been attached and runnin: through his own troops on the bridge diC not stop until he was s1fe within tn, walls of Picking. The bridge here ii about 2 quarter of mile long and per haps forty feet above the river and wa apparently crowded with fugitives Som were actually run down and killed b, the engine, but many more were crowded off the hridre and drowned in the rive below. Our Chihli troops arrviing the mex evening reported pulling seventy bodie from the river below the bridge and a the river was swollen with heavy rain
 in the hills it is probnhle that at leas as many more were swept farther ol down the river
 Cen. Gnu Surdenders.