Business Better Than Usual Changsha, June i7.
Matters are quietening down in Changsha, and except for the large numbers of soldiers it might be described as normal. Not for a long time has there been such a display of goods in the shops. Shelves that have not been full since the Southern troops left the city over two years ago, and which were as bare as they could be a few days £59, are now well-stocked, The deference between all the shops in the best business streets now and last week is incredible—especially when one remembers how solemn were the assurances that all stock had been sent out of the city to Hankow.
For the most part the soldiers are behaving very well. Here and there one gets isolated incidents which show that not all evil-dora are Northern. For instamve, in cne of the places in which Northern soldiers who have laid down their arms are gathered, a Southern soldier with rifle and full bandolier took a fancy to the gold ring and watch one of the Northern officers was wearing. There is no doubt that had the Chinese attendant at that, place taken note of the name of the miscreant, he would have been promptly shot.
T have seen no Southern soldier without his identification badge. There has been no sign as far a8 1 have observed of anything spproaching an antiforeign spirit. Even the reprehensible attempts to search foreign-owned steamers have been anti the enemy rather than
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