The Archive · 1911

The Dangers of Recruiting

Hangchow, Nov. 25.

There is nothing very spec report these da anxiously awaiting the fate of Nanking. Trade is more or less at a standstill, money is scarce and the looting of rice shops is going on more or less all the time. Paper notes, recognized by the new government and native banks, are now hoped that they will help to relieve somewhat the financial strain.

Aa officer who had recruited some 2,000 troops and took them to headquarters to be numbered, paid and armed, did not yet 21l he wanted, and it ended ins row, in

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