For some reason or other Mukden seems calmer to-day. The fear of Tooting seems to have lessened, perhaps due to the Japanese prociamation that they Will preserve the public peace, but conditions are far from normal. Money is exceeding! tight, and business is practi a standstill, Yesterday Known that Chang Tso-lin wa the market for five million yen, and the demand for this currency' was further inerensed by the unloading of large quantities of fengpiao, with which the Arsenal had paid a large number of its creditors on Wednesday. To-day fengpiao has recovered somewhat, but why easy to explain, The Marshal's Family Apparently the frantic exodus from the native city last week end was due to the Marshal himself. His family were the first to move into the Japanese concession, and not unnaturally others followed like frightened sheep.
It is believed which is that he parture when he has made arrangements for so doing.
An interesting feature of the situation is that not a single wound. ed soldier has been in Mukden, fact which tends to support the assertion that there was no real fighting in the neighbourhood of Shanhaikuan: merely an exchange of rifle fire.
Another interesting sidelight is that armed Chinese soldiers without pass may not enter the Japanese concession, but those who have no for, enter the concession, transact their business, and on leaving claim their weapons.
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