Martial law has been declared in Chinese territory according to the "'Ming-kuo pao," by Col. Lu, Chief of the Woosung and Shanghai Corstabulary, The following, measures will be enforced:
The holding of meetings ana distribution of newspapers, ete, velating to the general situation ave prohibited.
Close watch will be kept on guns, ammunition, and other dangerous Weapons, ani these articles are Hiable to be confitented on being Men will be detailed for duty at the Post Offices and telegraph offices to deal with matter relating military movements, Police will be authorized to entes premises and board steamers eavry out searches.
ople passing territory under martial law from to 11.80 pam, will be subject to searches;—all twattle will be prohibited between 14.80 at night and daw General Ho Feng-lin, at his! yamen at Lunghua on Wednesday afternoon, held a conference with Lunghua officials, the chairman, Vice-chairman of the general and city chambers of commerce ai prominent Shanghai merchants and gentry. Altogether there were some 60 people present.
General Ho explained that he ha: d called the meeting in order to put his position before them. As they' Auew he had quartered his forces at Lunghua for the past 10 years, and in all that time he had always done everything in his power to keep the peace, Realizing the difficulties which were bound to occur whenever trouble of the present nature arose, and the diplomatic complica tions' which must of necessity ensue, he had always been patient id worked for a peaceful settlo-
General Ho then went on to explain the military position as it existed. He had received a report to the effect that over 180 railway cars had been detained at Nanking, that soldiers were to he com syed to Soochow as from August 27. This being so it was for then, to make the best arrangements he could for defence, but they could, take his word for it that he would not be the aggressor. He would not fight unless attacked. connexion with the sensational collapse of Chinese bonds, Northern papers report that the chiot civil and police administrations of the Ministry of Interior, have applied for the arrest of stock manipulators and rumour mongers who wore responsible for the disruption of the bond market. It is also alleged that some financial organizations were implicated.
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