The Governor, incensed at these fabrications of disturbing rumours, came out early on the moming of June 7, with a strong proclamation, showing that such statements were false and urging the populace to become quiet. The entire city was in a state of siege on Saturda; night, with groups of armed solders guarding all the roads, in and out of the city Word has come that on the night of Saturday, June 6, a mass meeting of labour: fers was held in the cotton mill on
from Changsha city. Servants, the opposite bank of the river chiefly those employed in foreign homes, have been approached to strike." Studer in Christian schools, Loth in the College of in China, and in other mission tions, have been taunted fon the streets and called foreign slaves. At the same time, it must be frankly stated that, consider. ing the provocation, the steadiness and loyalty of' the students in mission institutions hax been remarkable. They have tried to stand by and keep order and to refrain from joining in noisy de-
If the of ials continue to keep 8 grip on things, the situation will surely quiet down soon, The usually giving the im. pression of being a watchful wa has been agg and det both in statement and action, June 8, After a week of increasing tension in Chaagsha, ending with a very serious threatening of evil and the fabrication of numberless rumours on the 6th of June, Gov-jemer Chao Hong-ti showed himself to he thoroughly master of the situation. He has been gov-Jernor for several years and has usually been deemed @ mild man. two years ago he caused commo jon among the ranks of labour agiators by executing two student leaders, famed for their violence in speech and manner, who were found to be inciting the workers of {the cotton mill to revolution.
His next vigorous display of pow-for came late on Saturday evening the sixth. Learning of a vast mob
railway yards, apparently to get that had gone out to ewrround the even with an engineer about whom false rumour has been started dur ing the afternoon, he sent out a large detachment of soldiers to cut off the mob. As they met, the mob} taunted them and there was some bandying of words until the sol-Jdicrs slipped cartridge clips into} {their rifles and told the crowd to: g0. This shut down the trouble.
4 We Must Keer Onper On Sunday the sixth, Governor Chao called together a' large and representative group to the yamen made them a long address. First gaining the ear of the com-[pany by expressing deep sympathy for those who had lost their li es jin Shanghai, he went on to speak isturbanees here in Chang-"What influence," he asked, "can we have in_ telegraphing counsel to other provinces if we are unable to keep order here in Hunan? When people know that in the west of Hunan, at Shenchow, Jat Hungkiang and elsewhere ban-_ its over-run the country, how can Before long a girl was found at|they pay attention to our words?
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