Opposition of Merchant Class to Kuomintang "Bolyhevists":
Volunteers and "Reds" ion, Oct. 2
The inevitable conflict between the merchant class and the Kuomintang "Bolshevints" is expected int the early part of October, unless utter yield to the popular demn for government by the people in the mext few days, The lone~ taming issue between Dr Sun shanse wax brought september 28, when xix vestion with the merchants.
Those military units which were oured with a portion of the spoils when Dr, Sun divided the ammunition of the expected to adopt titude should a conflict —Reuter's Pucitie foodstuffs.
Pekenc is facing a scarcity of It is said that since the to the capital from the south, while owing to the recent currency and bond trouble near the Mid-Antupin Festival most of the local rice shops outports. Above all, us the result of the late flood in Honan, a flour. producing province, no flour is sent to the north. before more than a few hundred dollars of the notes had been put into circulation, Mr. Chao Tieh-shan, a public spirited member of the gentry of this district, recently discovered in a shop here an ancient stone tablet dating from the Tang dynasty. After carefully cleaning the stone hho found it was an historical sketch, ithe work of one Liu Jen (style Tang) of the reign of Shen Lung in the Tang dynasty. Mr. Chao has presented the tablet" to the public museum in Taiywantu,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.