Dongehao, January 21.
Several causes have contributed to the unrest that has prevailed in the districts of Dongshang (otherwise Tranghsiang), Shihmen, and Naining in northern Chekiang.
The d of the opiam dens has et loose @ number of people of the baser sort who are out of employment. 'A half-famine has wrought discontent among the country people, the price of fice fs been, and. still in abnormally high, and the clack times have suspended many building operations and so thrown out of employment a large number of the artisan class. The rail road agitation has a generally dis-tarping effect. Add to this the fact that officials in interior are poorly equipped with soldiers and many of the so-called soldiers: work in secret conjunction with the robber class, which class, ander various names, is greatly on the increase. Take all these causes together and we have the elements of" disturbed state of affairs, and the occasion arrived when the time came for the collection of the rice tax, the people demanding s reduction on the usual rate. And it was ip- those districts where the reduction was not promptly granted that the difficulties Mlaoy of the country people joined in the riots, bat the instigators were of
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