"che report of an extraordinary ocenrroner atone of the garrisons in the vicinity of shanghai city reached the settlement on Thursday. Unfortunately only the most meagre particulars have come to hand, s0 that impossible to gauge the significance of the event, bat it seems to have created so much excitement in the city that on Wednesday night the Chinese volunteers there were ordered out.
The news which lqi to such measures being adopted was that during the day come of the Imperial clansmen now resident in Shanghai had called at one closed. In any event the commander] seems to have pooh-poolied the idea, and the clansmen departed.
Upon the report of this in the city the volunteers were ordered out, and during the evening paraded the various! quarters. Nothing happened to suggest that anything out of the ordinary! was afoot, and eventually the men were dismissed.
Reported trouble among the Troops.
A second version of Wednesday's affair in the City states the cause of the trouble as the non-payment of the troops. Those in the vicinity of the Arsenal are said to have received one dollar last week, and the rumours of dissatisfaction among them and other regiments caused the authorities to be on the qui vive One branch of the troops who have always been paid their wages regularly are th: "DareTo-Dies," the regiment raised by the noted Lu Fu-piao, but in view of the shortage of funds 300 of the total of 900 are' understood to have been discharged recently. These were believed to have been adding to the general unrest since their discharge, and the turning out of the volunteers was in order to meet any troubl> which might come from the quarters indi ated. The "DareTo-Dies" in commission were also paraded, thus performing a service similar to that which they have rendered on other occasions when there were! signs of disaffection among the sol The authorities had had several hours' notice of the intended trouble, and the steps taken were doubt-lees sufficient to avert it, if in fact it had reached such an acute stage.
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