Hangchow, Aug. 30.
I have nothing very much to report to-day. The Chekiang and Kiangsu gentry, I understand, have come to an agreement with Marshals Lu and Chi that the opposing troops, on the borders of the provinces will keep at least 20 to 30 li from each other. This, T_ understand, Marshal Lu has agreed to.
A couple of days ago the pawnshops were closed, and a cotoin amount of panic was feared. They have opened again, but no one is allowed to pawn more than up to $2, The factories are still working, and Lam told that, if they are com: pelled to shut down, certain allowances will be made for food, at any: Fate while the people are unemployed.
The night train for Shanghai on Thursday was packed with about 1,000 people, we are told, and not a few foreigners from Mokanshan. When the time for starting had arrived, a telegram came from Shanghai saying the train was not to leave, and such a hubbub ensued when the people were ordered out of the train to shift for themselves till the next morning, when they were assured a train would leave. To get them and their belongings all out was not easy. Than another messuze came at 10 p.m, saying] "Send the night express once." The people by that time all had dispersed "and gone home to friends and to hotels, to any place where they could stay for the ight and the tr loft without a passen-
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