'A short time ago a band of robbers entered a business shop just in the vicinity of Changshu and carried off spoils amounting to 13,000 dollars. The banditti were pursued and it was found that twenty-five Xero living in a large Ningpo boat at "Bangkajau" just off the Yangtze.
The present state of ferment in China has so affected the minds of the people that, no one knows to-day where trouble will spring from to-morrow. There has been no rebellion here, but the farmers just decided that they would not pay their rice rent.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.