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 the walls, the men advanced through the gate right up to the prefect's and magistrate's yamêns before the foreigners knew what was taking place. Then followed a street fight, and our troops found them- selves taken in the rear by a foreign force which had come to the rescue from the north gate. Finding it impossible to withstand the rockets and guns with which the foreigners peppered them from the house- tops, they retired, fighting as they went, with a loss of 250 men. General TWAN, coming up with reinforcements, turned round and bolted, not even attempting to rally the men, or oven to fall back upon and defend his camp at Ta-yin Shan. General Yü PU-YÜN, who was advancing with 2,000 men from Fung-hwa, as soon as he heard of the defeat, turned and fled all night long into the open country. So much for our arms at Ningpo. Of the force at Ts'z-k'i, a part, that is 500 men, succeeded in getting into Chên-hai in the same way as had been done at Ningpo; but our agents in the city were too few to secure the persons of the pirates, and it was daylight before our fire-arms could be sent for. The enemy then gave us a broadside from his position on Chao-pao Shan, which drove our men helter-skelter out of the city. Colonel CHU, with his reinforcements, lost his way in the wind and rain, and never came up to Chên-hai at all. So much for