Employed Sampaus to take them off to the ships, which of course all the money was paid for. Two hundred Chinese soldiers proceeded to the villages of Jan po hic & its neighbourhood today, and by the 17th I think that the people heartily welcomed the hoisting of our flag, which will relieve them of the presence of those who do not usually pay for what they require in the villages in which they are quartered.
3. I am not disposed to attach much importance to this attack upon Mitar and his party. Such sudden allege... militant irritability is not uncommon in Meland and Environs. As it arises rapidly, there were matsheds erected, a large one for the temporary barracks, a small one for the workmen. The latter only was burnt. Had the destruction of the matsheds been previously determined upon, they would not have left the principal one intact, both being undefended at the time. The police with the ...