Shanghai's Quieter Appearance, A Strange Report of Feng Vu-hsiang On Saturday' evening Reuter's Agency issued the following official communique "Since there has been a conside erable easing of the local situation during the past throe days instruct tions have been given for the withdrawal from duty of @ portion of the defence foreen and these in-stra 10£ course this means no relaxa tion of the defence and watebful-
Shanghai presented an almost normal appearance yesterday in that most of the shops in various parts of the Settlement, including Nanking Road were open to some tent, if not entirely, for busine! 'The' markets, which have been point of attack on the part of the agitators und students, were open, with the exception of the meat, shops—flowers and garden produce could be seen everywhere, at Hong kew also.
At Arte & Craft all workmen, 450 in number have resumed their Jabours, while at Kelly & Walsh's western plant none have returned, OF the Settlement laundryman, ess than 1,500 refuse to wor Numerous instances of thieving anil rice satehing took place during the week end. On Saturday a gang of coolies assailed two wheelbarrows on Daly Road and made off with 20 bageof rice. In the Wayside ict another gang made of with one A party of Chinese, who appeared to be students, took' 17 bottles, of which 10 were full of milk, from a coolie in Jessfield Village on Sat urday. The thieves took the bottles to the Fire Station in Jessfield Vill~ age which is being used as a base by the Merchants Protection Corps, A few hours later, a breadman employed by Hall and Holtz was stopped at the same place, and relieved of 12 loaves of bread, Although the thieves in both these cases took the articles to the Eh nese Fire Station, officers on duty there, who were interviewed by members of the Municipal Police, denied all knowledge of the inci= dents, i A number of students tried to seize 20 cattle which were on their way to the French Slaughter House, but desisted on the approach of Party of naval men who escorted the cattle to the ettlement. of June 14, feuter telegram from Pekin General Feng Vu-hsiang viewed by the "Ching ed that in case of hostilities against Britain he would be the first in tha field. He said that China need not fear England, which had a big Navy, but only a small Army." a We do nct for a moment suppose Gen. Feng ever said such a thin but the invention i The Chinese Press states that Gen. Chang Hsiao-liang has ordered '3,000 troops' from' Shantung to one iit for Shanghal—the arrival of which is expected econ.
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