Official Promises of Protection, Unofficial Agitation of Masses Hankow, Apr. 20.
Except in the event of actual war breaking out heve between the forces, of General Chiang Kai-shek, until three days ago Commander-in-Chief fof the Nationalist armies, and General Tang. Song-chi, Hunanese com mander of the 8th Army of the Nationalist troops in control of this districts, there is little to fear here of an organized maxaacre of foreiga organized destruction of n property:
The danger to the foreigner here! is not in any actual plan of che] Government or of the Politico! Bureau to eliminate the foreigner by means of killing him off, but in inculcating into of thousands of ignorant coolie masses a hatred which It is impossible for
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