0 hundred carrying coolies haVe been hurried off to Kashing. Rumours of a disturbing character reach us of trouble between here and Ningpo. There is no reliable information as to what is really taking place, Hangchow is now very and has to wait two and three days to get news from Shanghai.
It is rumoured that the gentry are going to rebuild the Thunder Peak Pagoda, Ir is understood that the Canton Government has made further conditions in regard to the return of the arms from the Hav. These are that only 4,000 riffes be returned, for which the commerical community, must express their appreciation by denying in a circular telegram the Yeport hat they have requested Chen Chiung-ming to attack Canton, and then pay to the Government within three days half a million dollars... The representatives of the Merchant Volunteers, on hearing these fresh conditions, have decided to negotiate no further on the matter.
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