As already reported, General Yang Shan-teh has decided to. purchase several hundred mow of land at Lunghua for the purpose of building barracks and laying out drill ground for the Northern troops, and instructions have been issued to the Protect of Shanghai and the Director of Works aad Taxes to attend to the matter as expeditiously as they can. After conferring with the headmen and elders of the village, the Prefect and the Director fixed the official price for the land wanted by the military authorities at $100 per mow beside allowing some fee for the removal of graves, ete., to the Tt is reported in the Chinese Press thst the country people of Langhua, are in consequence much alarmed, owing to the fact that
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