Placards are out denouncing alike! Nanking and Hankow, Chiang. Kaishek and Li Chi-hsin; and a manifesto issued calls for support fo: Madame Sun Yat-sen's policy. The manifesto otherwise deals *chiefly with the reduction or abolition of taxes and rents, the eight hours' day, and the improvement of the 1s of the working man, What, it all means in working we -have still to see; but if Hankow is any precedent, the outlook for the port: and the district is black enough. The only hope that any respectable Chinese has Is that Canton will sooh deal with this rabble and drive it out. Apart from that the feeling is one of profound depression.
'One of the "men-of-war"—she is really only a converted coasting launch—-that was carrying away the' retreating troops got a nasty jolt when a Japanese destroyer fired a shot across her bows as she was. king for the open sea, and held It appears that there was J-standing claim against her on account of a collision with a Japan-they had Hongkong, Oct, 3.
Swatow has now cleared out the Red faction.
'The Headquarters of the Farmers and Peasants' Union, a Red ganization, have been burnt.
The Commissioner for Forei [Affairs has disappeared.
After the departure of General Ho Long's troops, the Anglo-Chinese College, which has been occupied by Chinese troops for the last eighteen months, was looted on October 1.
The Swatow correspondent of the Hongkong "Daily states that shortly after tiffin-time on September 29 a pinnace belonging to the Chinese gunboat Feiyang towed fishing-junk with sixty marines ashore. No sooner had a landing! been effected than fighting began on the streets, The Feiyang thet put ashore another party of marines, the landing being covered by the fire of a four-inch gun and a pom-pom.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.