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Show NANKING IS HOLDING OUT. The Power of the Purse Has Been Allowed Al-lowed to Supplant the Power of the Sword. London. The Pekin correspondent of the Times describs chaotic conditions condi-tions in the Yang-Tse valley owing to the dilatoriness of the government troops. He says that within a day's march of the Wu-Sung forts 2,000 southerners continue to defy the victors, vic-tors, and the attitude of the Kiang-Yin Kiang-Yin forts is so doubtful that the warships, war-ships, which are bady wanted for an assault on Nanking, dare not venture past them. Nanking is still violently resisting the attack by three government armies, arm-ies, and in the other districts "the general flabbiness" of the provisional administration encourages isolated risings against authority. The power of te purse, adds the correspondent, has been allowed to supplant the power of the sword, and, conducted on the present lines, the war can last forever. , |