Wuchang, Dec. 97.
The students in the Wuhan cities are at present very wrath with the Tuchun and Civil Governor as they have forbidden all meetings and lectures on the Japanese crisis. The schoolboys have made one or two attempts to defy the authorities and to hold gatherings in order to propagate their view on national affairs, but the police have on each occasion interfered and dispersed the crowd. I hear that the Governor had ordered all government schools to be closed not later than December 22. This appears to be the only course open, as the pupils are not likely in their present mental condition to give much heed to either books or teachers and they are only in the way of making themselves nuisances to the police, the shopkeepers and the general public.
It would be interesting to know who is really behind the movement, at any rate in this part of the country. Certainly it is some one ith a certain amount of organizing capacity far beyond what any schoolboy is likely to possess, Influenza Waning.
The influenza epidemic now appears to be on the wane, although there are still a fair number of cases. A few weeks ago the disease was very prevalent, especially among the Chinese. I'was informed by a doctor that many of the natives died within 12 hours after being first attacked.
The long-looked for rains have come at Last. The whole countryside has been arched. so that a continued fall of rain will gladden the hearts of the farmers.
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