It was reported sore time.ago that one of the mints in this city had been shut down. It has not been miss There two or three now running at fall capacity, It is estimated that at least two million copper for pieces are being coined every twenty-four' liowrs, These mitts run day and fight. A to one of these plants recently disclosed about twenty mow of land under cover most of the buildings are in modern stylo, There were six largo boilers, four of Chi-English The machinery is all new.
and tivo very large ones of There were eight large die-stamping. machines "made in Germany" and about thirty somewhat saller but much neater safe to travel by lit. So: the visit wns}; appearance of English inaks.. Each of deferred. 1t is reported that the robber these machines has a. capacity of from have their rendezvous at a place call sixty to ninety coins per: ninute, In one Teouwangmiao, not fai from. Haining.
There chapel hi room there was a large quantity of copper Iso, but the only. in large ingots or bars. Thoro must have news in is that some rich men have been 'a good many tons of it. The captured and-held for ransom. As. Yor took special pains to toll us.that the defeat of Government, troops,. no one seems to know anything definite copper came from 3 America, although he admitted some of about it. it came from Japan. 'The following item 'The Boycott. is clipped from an American paper of last, Daring the summier'the city was filled September and fits in with what was told with boycott placards some four or five us at this mint different' kinds being secu. ' Many' of "There has been some curiosity as. these still remain, but lio new otics have the reason of the vast amount of copper been put up recently; to China. During the last eight aware, These placards are months $9,000,000 worth has been ship-ques.which have been mentioned in yo pod, and this is supposed to be one of the columns so frequently. They do riot auses.of.the steady. rise in price. The to attract much attention now,-although most obvious. suggestion.is..that {this everyone knows, of their contents" and] /copper.was intended for Japan for nae in that the Chinese have been cruelly; carrying onthe war.. As there a treated: by some: foreign country! The; possibility of capture if shipped direct, it force of the boycott seems to have spent jis suggested that copper was bor by itself. 'There was a call for a mass meet-Chi ce its, and reshipped! ing- on "Sunday: last' t6.consider what Japan at, convenient: times. Another; re-should be done about it, "seeing -that port-states..that, in anticipation ofthe the. American treaty had not yet been establishment: of an. imperial: mint' in abrogated" I have-been unable after China; vations Viceroys have been repeated enquiries: to find out. anything engaged in coining copper to make upitho about the: meeting, or- even-whether it}deficiency. hetareen the, real
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