Great, excitement has prevailed in Nanking during the past few days, On Friday all the main thoroughfares were held up by the military forees for the best part of the day. This was a pi measure of safety the occasion of the meeting of the ting and Chiang Teng-hsuan of Kiangsu and Anhui, They had convened a conference and about 100 of the leading gentry of Ni king and other menied people were present at the banquet by command, The purpose of this special hur-was to discuss ways ind guarantees for the mews of war. A hundred million dollars was the figure of the loan deemed necessary for immediate requisition in the event of hostility ies.
Terror and panic is again gripping the people like vice. The railway line has been wholly com: mandeered by the army. The Saturday morning train for Shanghai returned to the depot after Proceeding some distance down the that Nanking wa ed. Crowds of people flocked to the river side in search of craft bound for Shanghai. As it happened on Saturday, only one steamer passed through Nanking for the coast. The N.K.K. hulk presented a very lively scene as the fast gathering crowd awaited the belated Siengyang Maru. The jetties were piled high with bag-page and there was scarcely standing room ' within the pre-
Mara Before the steamer could get alongside small Inunches put out into mid-stream and in thie way many of the more favoured class and Chinese officials with' their wives boarded the steamer and secured what cabin accommodation—remained. Scareely had the steamer made fast before there was a re-' gular stampede. Then it was found that there was not a single, cabin or sleeping berth of any description available in any part of the vessel. The foreign passen:
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