There is the usual crop of rumours as to intended raids on the foreign concession, but we are so accustomed to dwelling in the midst of alarms nowadays that they disturb nobody. nis Ito has come and gone. He stayed while here with a private native gentleman, but was entertained to a feast by the Viceroy in the Huang Ho Lao Temple on Sunday, All the Consuls were invited and, with the exception of the representative of Russia, attended. Next evening Marquis Ito left for Nanking. Our The native story is that he took the execu-Into Governor, E-E. Tan, is reported dead. tion of his son at Peking and his own degradation so much to heart, that he committed suicide after leaving Yochou on his way home. There are various rumours a3 to the chances and changes shortly to petal ELE. Chang Chih-tung, but it will be time enough to relate them when something really happens. Here, as elsewhere, the times are sadly out of joint and no one knows what to expect.
19th October. a
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