¶ Between the Northern and Southern Chinese factions struggling for Shanghai (TIME, Oct. 4 et seq.) no important engagement occurred, last week, but the Southerners were strengthened by the sudden desertion to their cause of a previously neutral War Lord, Chen Tiao-yung, Governor of Anhwei, a province so located as to threaten seriously the rear of the Northern forces, if Chen has really turned against them.
¶ Fugitive Occidental missionaries from the interior of China, to a total of about 1,200, were at Shanghai, during the week.
¶ Nine hundred and fifty thousand pounds ($4,600,000) were appropriated by the British...
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