Practically every province has held or is preparing to hold its pre-be paraded through certain streets of the Foreign Settlement and the French Concession was responsible for the collection at various points of huge crowds of Chinese spectators. They began to gather during the tifin interval, and by 2 p.m. Nanking Road, Averue Edwant VII and the Bund, together with a mumber of thoroughfares in Frenchtown, were lined with typically curious Chinese, The amount of public interest evinced in the affair vested it with an' appearance of strangeness, which was only natural, During' the past few months over. 100 Chinese have been sentenced to death by order of the Mixed Court for crimes committed in or near the Settlement. Owing to the teneral unsettled' mature of conditions in Shanghai, the ordinary procedure of handing these con-
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