The Archive · 1902

Wild Rumours

The Examiner, who is a Bannerman, arrived here yesterday. The city is very full of students; about 13,000 are said to have already arrived. But the city i even fuller of wild talk. Exaggerative ports of outrages are constantly coming concerning places where there is no seri ous trouble, The Rice Harvest has commence, and through the Tsichou section and Tungehuanfu it is about a half crop. But to the west and south of Chengtu it is an unusually good crop.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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