The authorities here have been developing their military forces very consider-of late. There sire continual drills the foreign plan. New are in one, and even machine guns it i:
At the moment there seems to be ome alarm for the sale of weapons is proed, though this order has come too The shops are sold out. What am-ion that is left is also under a ban It is also reported that considerable qu: tities of the eld guns used by the militia are missing.
That is the situation at present. Otherwise things seem to be going on as befo: Rice is cheap, say $3.25 per picul, and not likely to go up much because its port is prohibited. Beef is ten cents, and mutton thirty cents a catty. The late rains have produced a fine crop of fresh grass, so the country has qui+e 2 <pring-like appearance.
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