Tsangchow, Chibli, April 21.
The uneventful monotony of daily life for the average habitant of this "hsien" city has been considerably enlivened by an extraordinarily vigorous anti-queue campaign, which has been in full blast since last Sunday.
One has a strong suspicion from personal observation over a wide area in S.E. Chili, that the metropolitan province is one of the most backward in dealing with this symbol of the Manchu yoke. The country people in this and the neighbouring "hsien" cling to their "tails" with a strange persistence, and one knows of villages where queue-less heads may be counted on the fingers of one hand. Undoubtedly, to the conservative yokel, his appendage is a relic of the good oid times. He has no use for dissertations on the historical origin of the adornment, in fact the Ching dynasty represents to him the only form of reasonable and safe government.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.