Although nothing whatever has} been accomplished, the schools have all reopened again. The fear of students was that the authorities would close all the "schools, thus compelling the students to seatter to their homes, and making further demonstrations impossible. What] the next step will be on either side, possible to. predict. The seem half-afraid of the just as the students are of the officials. Martial] law has been declared in Hankow, for no other reason than the fear lest Wuchang students should cross over and attempt to raise disorder there, A number of the mission schools are in trepidation, andi two of them in the—heart of the city declared a three days' holiday during "the trouble, lest worse things should befall them.
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