China New Year has pissed with unusual quietness: there seems to have been less demonstration from some cause than heretofore. Ships have all opened again and business is on the increase. The friend-lines of thepenple is very noticeable. Those who have proved their friendship by the test of the past year are daily gi idence of their genuineness, whi who apparently were good unable to stand when the try They have not the "face" now to come and sce the foreigner and even when met on the street they are like the ' plus! Poppy a crimson hue."
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