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Last summer my elder brother arrived from ���ü-����dz�, leading by the hand six or seven little brothers and sisters, orphans of various households.

When invading the territory of Hsu-chou, he ignored the city of Hua-pi, which lay directly in his path, and pressed on into the heart of the country.

The road is open to Shunte-fu, 300 miles south of Peking and to Hsu-chou, 434 kilometers north of Hankow.