'A good fall of rain will doubtless do more than any number of proclamations to quiet the minds of the people.
The presence of Professor Jenks in Ktaiféngfu has given rise to the rumour that a foreign governor has been appointed for the province, who is accompanied by 3,000 foreign soldiers, and very soon all official in the province are to be foreigners. News of the War filters through very slowly. Russia is known to be a much larger country than Japan. Someone: was heard to remark that the Russian soldiers wore ten times as many as the Japanese, besides any number of noncombatants to hold the clothes of the fighters while the fight was in progress. How could Japan hope to win?
The LP.O. has just opened an office here. gan office is mot always plain sailing; at Taanghsti there was almost a free fight. First there was opposition; then when the business men found it was 2 good thing they fought because more than one man wanted the privilege. At Kaiféngia there have been several disturbances arising out of who was to lick the stamps. The clerk objected to lick for the buyer while the buyer wished to know what the clerk was paid for. Now there is a notice up to the effect that every man must lick his own stamps.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.