All the reports agree in the statement of the settlement of the Chiningchou affair, but in spite of it all, the fears of the people cannot be allayed. The magistrate has gone and commanded, the booths to be pulled down and the people to go about their business, but to no effect. Report says that the tipao have been beaten because they allowed the work to goon, but all to no effect. The people seem to have their minds made up that trouble is coming, and no persuasion will stop them. It is hard to find a reason for all this, Continual inquiry licits no hints of local disturbance, only the great fear of what is coming from somewhere seems to hold all in its grasp.
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