Wuchang, May 4.
We are at present not sure when ther we are going to be let in for a general students' strike or not. Last week the Students' Union issued an edict that there was to be a grand march and demonstration of pupils from all schools. However, the only ones to turn up were Boone and one Government School. Some' days afterwards the Government' schools approached Boone to get the pupils to join in a general strike, but Boone indignantly replied that they had been "let down" over the projected grand march and refused to leave their studies.
The National Higher Normal School pupils last week intimated to' their teachers that they were all going to cease work for a time The reply of the faculty was in effect: "No you don't. we—will give you a few holidays." and so the boys have had the glory of going on strike without suffering punishment for their deeds. However, I hear that to-day they have returned to work.
The price of rice still continues to be very high, and is likely to remain so until the new crop is roaned. This state of affairs is no doubt causing a good deal of suffering among the poorer classes and tends to auguient the general unrest.
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The question of a bridge across the Yangtze has again come to the fore. I hear on good authority that two wealthy compradores are contemplating erecting a structure between the Huang Hua Lou in Wuchang and Hanyang. A good many of us would be only too glad to see such a scheme materialize, as crossing the river here on a day when a northerly gale is blowing is not a thing to be contemplated with feelings of pleasure.
Some of the Chinese on this side of the river got quite a scare the other night about nine o'clock. From sounds we could hear in Hankow, it seemed as if a riot or revolution were in progress and that a great deal of ammunition was being expended by both sides. Next morning rumours were afloat that there had been a disturbance on the Jap-
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