Soldiers Camped at North Station in Suspicious Mood: Station's Filthy State: Later Day Taken Over by General Bei Bao-shan and Sent to Kiangwan Alter the settlement of terms on Sunday, Monday opened discouragingly. Some thousands of Marshal Lu's soldiers were camped in and about the North Station which was indeserivably filthy.
The general attitude of the men was that till they got thei money they would not move.
In the evening, however, it was announced that as the result of conferences General Bei Bao-shan was taking the soldiers into his ranks, Most of them were subsequently off.some to Kiangwan, some to remained al the station.
Lunghua.
Comparatively few Chinese circles are jubilant, but as the arrangement only shifts the men from one place to another under an alien command the situation is to be regarded with caution, Marshal Chi is stated to be coming to Shanghai.
He is much needed as there are political delicate as the military, gestions to be settled quite ax 'Though something like a settle. ment had been reached in the po sent situation around Shanghai the presence of n very large number of Chekiang soldiers on the border of the Settlement did not necessarily' mean the cessation of trouble. The terms offered by Marshal Chi are undoubtedly generous. But clearly there was doubt among the soldiers as to whether the money would be distributed to the right persons, and ney were suspicious of everybody' about them.
Such was the sit tion on Monday morning and clu nest of the day—very discouraging after the hopes entertained on Sunday that! fall was practically over.
Meanwhile Shanghai North Station showed no signs of any change nor did it seem likely to do so unfit something in the shape of ready money Was forthcoming. The station platforms were one disorderly mass lof idle soldiers. Waiting room: platforms, and track alike were b strewn with straw and sprawling soldiers. Nor did the inhabitants worry their heads very much about the question of sanitation. Many of the men ha sought their abode Iway vans while others used th" more commodious apartments of a first-class carriage. What these carriages will be like when they are Finally vacated is difficult to imagine. Anything which is of a movable character will undoubtedly be taken away and sold. On dining ears eutery and other property are known Ihave been taken ed lib.
Egyed on by Expl Some of the men, it ix stated were Jdemanding at least $10 per head. Probably the truth of the matter that there are many adventurers who have been exploiting the situa-ug them to ask for as much can get. OF course these viduals want to make a pretty big "squeeze" and there was some Feport that the who were carry fon negotiations were asking for the money ina lump sum. If this Joceurs it is questionable how much fof the money the rank and file will fever ce.
'A locomotive and one coach pa ed up and down the line several {times on Sunday, in connexion with peace negotiations. The soldiers do not allow any other traffic to pass. Without inspection. "Many of the men are only too glad to find some-jone with whom there is the like-hood of making a bargain. One man was seen on Monday worrying several people to buy a horse, and another produced several" gold Chinese wedding rings for which he assured spectators that he paid ten dollars each. However, most of the passers-by considered his p too dear and the security questionable. A large field gun was seen yesterday, several soldiers dragging along the track, for some unknown Fenton. A machine-gun was also posted outside the station buildings near one of the entrances into Boundary Road.
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