Probability of Settlement: Har-many and Ca-operation Mukden, Mar. 2.
'The Korean settlers' issue, which about two months ago looked threatening enough, now seems in a fair way of becoming quietly and amicably settled, the Chinese authorities having withdrawn their former opposition to a further cxtension of the land and house Tease contracts, The date for general renewal, the first day of the second moon, fell this year on February 21, and reports at hand indicate that not a few of these agreements have. already been renewed, although at somewhat increased rates. In one ease, at Fenghuangeheng near the Mukden-Antung line, the local Chinese official even went so far in amiability as to convoke both the Chinese land-owners and the Korean tenants to a meeting, where he admonished them to develop agriculture in harmony and mutual co-
'A Lance consignment of mi supplies, including a number chests of smokeless powder and poison gas, was despatched during the week-end to Chengchow for the use of Marshal Feng Vu-hsiang' Kuominchun, convert ourselves into bandits, the risks being much the same but the: financial aspect being much the better." These soldier-bandits are terrorizing the countryside. Meanwhile, the authorities at "Mukden continue to grapple in the dark the fenypiao problem. Warnings have again been sent to the traders to stop doing business in Yuan Shih-kai dollars but to resume trading in fengpiao "which is the official currency of Fengtien" and this despite the fact that "the official currency" is hardly worth the paper it is printed on. How many times must it be reiterated that the only way to stabilize the|* fengpiao currency is to withdraw the surplus n: tes from circulation?
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