We are having a visit from a gentleman from No, 4, Old Ohina Street (s0 he says). He has come to recover a debt. Unfortunately, the debt is dead, but someone might be found who was responsible for it. This gentleman from Shanghai took a shroff and a gun with him and threatened to have all taken tothe Taotai. The Chinese say the debt was paid, or that it never became adept. I make no comment on this case at present, but there is sufficient in it to induce the American Consulate in Shanghai to inform the above gentleman that to takes gun amongst country people and threaten them in not the best way to do business.
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