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equipped brigade some 4000 in mumber marched to the Inter- national Settlement and down the Jeasfield Road until the were stopped by the Scottish Company of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps hastily called out for the purpose, surrendered, submitted cheerfully to being disarmed, and
They
were duly interned, This brought the mumber of interned soldiers in both Settlements up to over 10,000, but this anxious problem was dealt with most promptly and efficiently
Negotiations were opened by the Settlement authorities,
with the Chinese Chamber of Commerce who agreed to provide funds for the repatriation of the men to Tsingtao in
The first Shantung where most of them have their homes. batch of 4,300 was sent off in the British India Steamship "Talma" on the 18th January and the last batch was shipped away on the 23rd.
As soon as the local situation had cleared and order had been restored, Chi Hsieh Yuan made arrangements to send his whole available force to Tanyang some twenty miles South of Chinkiang and the first troop trains left on the 16th January, while at the same time he moved troops
Very large numbers of from Changchow to Chinkiang. Fengtien troops had in the meantime been arriving at Nanking. The presence of a force of 1500 Russians with the Fengtien army seems to have inspired great terror in Chi's ranks but it has also had the effect of turning public opinion in Shanghai violently against Lu Yung Hsiang, On the 18th January Lu's men, including the Russians, cap- tured Chinklang with great ease and Chi's army seems to have hastened back from Tanyang in a disordered and demoralised state to Wusih where for a week past a state of
Owing to collisions complete chaos has prevailed.
between troop trains, the line is blocked on both sides
of
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