The representatives of the agitators in Poking have announced that up to the end of the Chinese 11th moon (about the end of December, 1907) the' Chinese Railway Companies at Soochow and Hangchow had sold out about Tis, 20,000,000 worth of shares at $5 each, ea that they are well supplied wit bond fide Chinese fands to build railways in their own country without foreign interference. It is also reported "in Chinese official circles in Peking and Tientsin that the revolutionary chief, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, la taking advantage of the turbulence of Kisogsu and Chekiang to send his assistants from Japan, Singapore and Hongkong to stir up anti-Mancha and anti-foreign disturbances; and that the merchants and others of the two provinces will boycott British goods in Shanghai, Soochow, Hangchow, Ningpo and other big and important cities in Central China, if the Corporation refuse to settle the question in their favour.
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