Norwich bulletin., 1920-11-06

ON compradore at Liu u Ho village. | two miles from the station that there ] had been a large body of Anfu troops posted in the village who mad mol be .a i infected by the panic of Saturday ni-sns However, Sunday night when they heard our train come in from the south and stop just outside the station, they sup posed that we were detraining troops there to make an attack on them. and though they had us badly outnumbereii. they threw away arms. equipment and ev- en clothes. and fled toward Pelxing. ihs ,ast of the Anfu western army. saw later where one had fallen in large mud ho and lost his cap and one shoe. He did not even stop to retrieve them. but scrambled out on the other side and ran on The marks of his hands and feet. one shod and one bare, were still plain ly visible in the mud
 As soon as the tropos we were waiting for came in. Gen Wu ordered his train to return to Paoringfu. that he migat deliver Gen Chiu over as a prisoner and consult with Gen. Ts'ao Kun as to his fu- ture course. We arrived there the next morning and found the whole city had turned out to welcome back the con- frsror. The students were especially H. ,ar;ous as Gen. wu has expressed himself
 ,rv strongly in favor of the broadly lib- -ts policies advocated hy the students T-ntors Gen. Wu informed us tha. he cous;1 cred the fighting to he all over. but tha- we would like for US very much to return with him. that evening, as he would like us to carry letter from him to the Diplomatic Corps in Picking. | So we went home for an all day sleep. 1 as we had spent the las four nights in q railway compartment too crowded to admit of any sleep.
 I Train in Collision
 l We left Peotingtu again with Gen. wu I that evening. but before getting to Cho- chou ran into a trainload of Fengtien
 -oaps which had stopped for the night
 between stations without putting up any lights as warning. Our engine v,s very badly smashed up. and two COTS overturned. killing one man serious ly injuring another and smashing all .he glass and crockery on the train. We walked on to Chochou where Gen. Wu succeeding In getting another train and | went on to Liu Lii Ho to establish h'e headuuarters there while he cleaned up
 the raronan-s of the Anfu army between
 there and Pel,ing
 Carircl Letter to Picking
 1 We stayed at Liu Li Ho two TCs until Gen. wu's cavalry had advanced tc
 within a few miles of the Picking walls
 Then the general gave up letter to tht legations and gave us a special engins
 and car to take us to Picking and VI
 went through. the first to get througf
 after the fighting. We found the Pekirs
 rates closed and fortified to keep on
 the dispersed Anfu troops. as 1t wal
 feared they would try to get in and loo
 the city. After some delay we succeede.
 in proving to the guards that we we-'
 not Anfuites in disguise and were al
 lowed to go 'I and deliver our letter t'
 Mir. Crane the Amertcan minister. A Gen. Wu had predicted We found that tn 'iberal clements had taken control of tn
 civ the president had been restored ' power and the Anfu leaders had take' r.fv~a i7 the Japanese ie~a'ion. whe-
 thev gre still being protected from ta . punishment they deserve both legall , and morally.
 , No regular trains were running to IT , entsin. but I was able to get in next ds
 as interpreter on the Legation Special , 2 military train kept running back an forth by the diplomatic corps in ori' ] to keep the lera'i0ns in co-mur'cafio i, with the coast From Tientsin I had n { trouble in getting train to Pehtaiho az I was finally able to rejoin my famil! from whom I had not been able to go word for almost three weeks.
 I Gen. wu's Victory Helps China T Just what the result of this struggl f wili be it is hard to predict but withor t question Gen. Wu's victory takes tn c country a big step forward. China stI r has a lone way to go to get real den f ocr1tic government but the defeat of tn I Anfu club has taken away one great ct f stacle to the reunion of the Nor-h an y South and Is a marked triumph for tl ! Liberals.