So far everything is quiet here though exciting rumours fill the streets, and there is much talk in the teashops; the people are a good deal alarmed. here are said to. be many secre society men in this city, chiefly the An C*hing Pang representatives of the Ta Tao Hui are also said to be here, but they are keeping out of sight owing to the strict repressive orders of the Viceroy.
SOLDIERS READY FOR WAR, The town for a month has been full of Hunanese soldiers, some of whom have been threatening and disorderly, bat a communication to the Taotai seems to have had a quieting effect. It is just to the Hunan soldiers to say that during thirteen years they have never given any serious trouble to the foreigners in this ry, not even during the great excitement at the time of the Japanese war. Already fa large number of them have gone north to Hsiichien. It is said a line of 20 camps will be established between Hsiichien and Chiichowfu. 20 camps will also be established here, one mile north of Tsingkiangpu on the old embankment of the Yellow River. The soldiers are now busy carrying material for these camps from boats on the canal. These soldiers are provided by the funds raised last summer by Kang Yi. The people all know this, and seem to know also that itis part of a great scheme to drive the foreigners out of the country.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.