Although the affair of the warning and flight of the wife of the French Consul at Hankow, in the middle of the night, from a temple in the adjoining mountains here was much exaggerated, and really only amounted to her receiving a timely notice of there being a special festival at that place in the morning at which the presence of samshu drinkers might render her stay untenable; still the last few days there has been a feeling of unrest at this port.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.