Canton, Feb. 5.
In spite of the gloomy forebodings of the newspapers the Cantonese have celebrated Chinese New Year with great festivity.
Commercial firms, interviewed, state that the settlements at the end of the year were satisfactorily concluded and that everything points to business prosperity in the New Year. This auspicious condition has been brought about not so much by the ability of the local government to control the situation as by the determination of the revolutionary" not to create disorder and so bring in its train ruin to trade and disturbance to commerce with its concomitant hardships to the people. The revolutionaries desire only Republican Government.
It is not beEeved that there will be any great disturbance in Canton and the schools that had been closed owing to the general feeling of uneasiness contemplate reopening soon after the New Year.—Reuter.
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