The daily papers contained a significant paragraph a few days ago, namely, that the re-construction Conference had ordered that the important parts of the machi nery still remaining after Yang Sen had had it dismantled in the arsenal should be stored within the city. The arsenal is without the city and has been a bone of contention even among the allies, so that, between the factions, the machinery that was left after Yang Sen's men had done their work, was im danger of being broken up, or carried off and cold.
Thus the powder necessary for firecrackers has not been in suen demand by the military authorities, the other hand the imp the city have necess tearing down of miles of old mud walls.
These walls were mines of saltpeter, and their destruction not only remunerated the owners to a considerable extent for the expenses incurred in the improvements of the streets, but also furnished in abundtance the material necessary for an all night uproar that kept the inhabitants wide-awake.
Tt would be stretching the truth perhaps, to say that this eclebrati was all thought out, and had in view the wisdom of using up all the extra saltpeter that it might not fall into the hands of some m*titary lord who might restore the powd: magazines, and yet, it certainly was a wise and harmless way of using up a, dangerous commodity Some 30 Shantung war refugees: were repatriated by the Shanghai Chinese Philanthropic Society last week.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.