Fears of Further Disturbances:)
Dictatorial Attitude of Labour, The last day of October found Boukow facing "a very" dificult Chinese business community at
situation. Locally rumours as to the attitude and plans of General Tang Sen-chi were only mentioned behind closed doors, but Chinese newspapers from Shanghai whick stated that the General is in touch with the North were being freely circulated, One local rumour was that Tang had sent an enlarged copy of his photograph to General Chang Chung-chang as a token off friendship, Another was that he was in direct touch with the Generalissimo, Whatever Tang may do, it is likely that this action will bring trouble to Hankow.
Chinese reports from down river fare so disquieting that on October 27 the notes of the Central Bank which are supposed to exchange on the five to one basis, were solling at 18 to the lar. Then to the consternation of the speculators the Central Bank announced that it would not exchange any more notes for silver, and today they a worthless ae currency.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.