We have. been living in a tense atmosphere during the past month [but'so far peace has been preserved. Very fortunately the students in the city, some weeks before the [Shanghai trouble, - had quarrelled with the Governor and had gone thorne, so that when the tide of antiforeign feeling reached here the schools were already closed. There were fewer people to make mis chief and the soldiers and the scholars were not on good term: JAlso the common people were busy feathering in an abun wanted no more agitation, However, the campaign of lies began with a deluge of pamphlets jand meetings on the streets, organized by "The Shensi all classes oppose British Japan butcher our bosom brothers. tyrannical shame society." The Chinese seem to have pathetic belief in the truth of all they see in print, so accept without question the statements that hundreds and even thousands of inoffe sive citizens have been mown down by British guns. Fortunately the officials have personally assured us that they will protect and proclam: tions have been issued that foreigners are not to be molested.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.