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Peace terms: 1) Each Wuchangese soldier who possesses a gun will be welcomed into the army of Chang Kaishek. 2) The merchants of Wuchang will be required to pay to Chang the "back pay" owed to these soldiers and their future maintenance in his armies...
...Though the Wuchangese merchants must pay to Chang Kaishek, the "wages" of soldiers whom they never hired, he will undoubtedly keep the "pay" of his new soldiers himself and encourage them to forage for themselves by looting in Wuchang and wherever else they may be quartered...
...last week by agitators in the pay of the Cantonese who were only checked when Major V. K. Ting of Shanghai discovered their plot and ordered cut the railway over which they expected to receive re-enforcements. These developments, adding to the fear of an immediate onslaught by Chang Kaishek, left foreigners and Chinese alike terror-stricken in Shanghai...
...Behind this screen they organized and drilled an army whose strength was universally underestimated. Suddenly, last August, at the hour of Wu's northern triumph the Cantonese struck at his war base, the Yangtze valley. The troops of their "mystery army" poured northward under Super-Tu-chun Chang Kaishek. Too late Wu rushed southward to defend Hankow and Wuchang-his twin strongholds on either bank of the Yangtze. Hankow fell at once. Wuchang has ever since been cruelly besieged. Reputedly 10,000 Wuchangese have died of starvation. Last week the besiegers came to terms with the besieged. The cycle...
...hundred thousand Chinese drew taut their belts last week, faced starvation with what fortitude they might. For three weeks they had been besieged in the walled city of Wuchang. Super-Tuchun Chang Kaishek, the Cantonese Communist War Lord had ringed them round with a besieging army of 100,000 mercenaries. He demanded the surrender of the city, its arsenals, its ironworks, its mint. Terrified, the civil inhabitants would have acquiesced, surrendered. They were prevented from surrendering their own city by the military garrison left behind by Super Tuchun Wu Pei-fu, as he retreated before Chang Kai-shek (TIME...