are tin the air" now-a-days, and so the Buddhist missionaries from' Japan are having their little portion of it ab Amoy. Their "church" was burnt down a few nights since (they claim) by rowdies from interior, who, they say, are also threatening to' pull' down the Japanese consulate at that place. Guards are stationed on Kulangsu, Japanese shops in the business quarters are closed, and the natives are alarmed. Nothing' serious is anticipated but any little breeze of this kind tells on trade all along the coast in its present (say) nervous condition, We shall rejoice when things are not as they were butes they might and ought to be after the Allies have done their full duty.
2st August.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.