(8) The remaining couaparison to be reade is one that up to the present i not well filled op with details. It is to be hoped that Hong Wo's treatment of enemies will be imitated throughout the length and breadth of this now peoples' empire, For many years alter Hang Wo stoated the throne, there was considerable unrest and constant Sgbtiog, some of the Mongol leaders beldiog their own in out of the way of the empire. The Governor of Bheasi proved "© veritable thorn in the side of the new emperor, bat when he was at lest ceptored and broogh! the royal presence, Hung Wu instead of exeeating the Mongol chief gare him bia life and with it " pension, Ta the province of Kansa some members of the Mongol royal family were captured and brought to th emperor, who was advised by all hi ministers on ro account to spare them. Hang We, bhowere.epare that irsand to one of the royal captives This was nove other thea the grandson of the last Mongol Emperor.
Tu sus wer to his ministers Hong is reported to bare said. " We read in the Shi King that after the destruction STRIKES AND COMSEQUENOES, To arrive at a correct conception of the present position it is necessary to go 60 far back as the Homo strikes, a3 a result of which trade at home was farlysed in Ange, sad, in soe Into as the beginning of September. During August and Sep~ tember there was a real revival of trade in Shanghai and throughout China; and although the fall in cotton to " certain extent interfered with the smooth progress of such a revival it was hoped that some arrangement could be arrived at, satisfactory to the home manufacturer, the foreign dealer in China and the Chinese. The home strikes have been responsible for the non-arrival of cargo into Shanghai for nearly four weeks and when the first consignment began to arrive here the revolution in Wuchang had broken out. As a matter of fact the first consignment arrived on October 10, the day after the start of the Wuchang revolt. The local fore eign merchants did not expect the revolution at all, surely not a revolution of the magnitude it has now assumed, So, when the cargo that was delayed on account of the home strikes arrived, the foreign dealers thought lightly of the additional burden that was entailed upon them, and as a matter of fact they had no legal remedy when the delay was due to causes over which the mann=
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