Apparently the authorities are getting very anxious about the amount of labour agitation that is going on in the city. Although ostensibly a workers' movement, its Teaders appear to be mostly students and teachers in the schools. A few weeks ago, some of the biggest dook-shops were searched by the Police, and a large quantity of alleged pernicious Socialist litera ture was confiscated and destroyed.
Next, suspicion was directed against 0 teacher who is employed! in two of the largest government. schools, and orders were given for his arrest. The man in question wrote a public defence which was published in the local papers, state ing that he is a teacher of economies, but not a Socialist. "Thi defence was accepted, and the teacher of economies was allowed to remain at liberty.
So far, the agitation has been more or less of a comedy. But the leaders of the movement have been arrested in Wuchang by agents Wu Pei-fu, and taken to Loyang: where five of them have already. been executed. The sixth is a lawyer named Liu. The Hupeh Provineial Assembly sent a telegram' to Loyang in which they guarantee ed this man's innocence and requested that he might be spared,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.