Wuchang, May 11.
The annual "Days of Humiliation," May 7 and 9, have passed by, as fortune would have it, with no specially noteworthy incidents, and "nothing aay all like a popular riot. After all the preparations and committees, cone was prepared for almost anything. Tt was known that monster demonstrations were planned, huge processions were to go round the principal streets, and the authorities were so apprehensive of disorder that all the police and military in the three cities were to turn out to keep the peace. The whole popu-Intion was about to endure paroxysms of disgrace, and undergo perfect fury of humiliation, Contary to expectation, however, the two days have passed off, on the whole, very quietly. The ' weather on Friday was to a large extent responsible for this. Rain fell all day in sufficient quantities to damp the ardour of the most determined 'A high wind made cro the Yangtze impossible; so the Governor's orders were well kept, no students attempted to cross the river from Wuchang to Han-
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