understood that money, a portion of the latest advance from the international group of bankers, has lately been remitted from king, and that the process of paying off the local troops will be begun within the next few days. In view of the uneasiness recently caused by the lack of money for the troops, whose wages were overd this arrangement is the more sati factory.
One factor which cannot be overlooked is a certain tendency on the part of some in authority to drag the name of foreigners into the contretemps which has now to be faced, A notable instance of: this occurred this week, when in address sing the troops upon the subject of their wages, an officer is reported to have said that Peking had now no money, that the Manchus had taken it all and handed it over to foreigners. At the time that this speech wag made a dole of $1 was served out to each of the men for their present necessities, This, however, was not to be considered as part of their wages, which would be paid as soon as money could be obtained.
Speeches of the type mentioned are of course to be strongly deprecated. But the excuse serves to show the straits in which the officers have found themselves to keep the men quiet.
Friday, July 12,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.