In a letter dated yesterday our correspondent adds It is ssid that the Prefect snd the Prefect and the military general submitted without hesitation though the General at first thought that he ought to resist. The trath is that there are no soldiers here, most of them b bile, caused by the passage of troops to Hangchow. Some of the merchants took alarm and sbat up their shops. The Chamber of Commerce and Self-Government Society sent messengers ronnd telling the merchants to epee their shops and resume basines.
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Representatives of the revolutionaries fare expected here to-day and crowds throng the railway station hoping to see them, I was at the station when the morning trains from Shanghai and Hangchow come in but there were n0 jationaries on board, I mean no official representative; numbers of the passengers bad white cloth on their arma, The train from Hangchow had bite flag on the engine.
Foreigners treated courteously overyinhere. The Presbyterian Mission school closed for the day because of the excitement, bat will probably resume to-morrow or the next day.
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