While the sight of refugees arriving from Hankow, carrying sll their worldly possessions with them for the most part, attracted mach attention in Shang-thie spectacle did not compare with of ions banks, both what was witnessed on the premises
foreign. The rash to get silk notes continued with incrossed force, mach so that in the early forenoon messages were sent to the police for special guards.
As a resalt of this, towards eleven o'clock the men who bad been on night doty, principally Sikhs and foreigners, were seat on daty, most of them armed, At all the banks there was a big crowd, boat it was at the office of the Imperial Bank of China that the largest cumber appeared to sssomble. So great was the crab that to cope with the demand it was found necessary to close the main doors and let the people eater in batches, They came out bugging their dollars in cloth page, while those who had to wait rome time before getting io, wore for the greatest part a resigned look.
Tanks to the special police on daty here and elsewhere, everything passed off quietly.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.