Soochow, Feb. 23. injured, fortunately the majority of the 300 usually employed had left for the New. Year holidays. The loss of chemicals, damage to buildings, etc., is said to run into an amount of five figures.
Although it is not possible for traders in cotton, oil, matches and other inflammable goods to insure in foreign insurance offices, they could at least minimize their risks by taking such precautions as are to be found in practice in well conducted firms at the Treaty ports. As it is, here in the interior happy-go-lucky methods are augmented by occasional theatricals, and profuse offerings of incense sticks to the Fire Demon, and the risks run are incalculable.
A veritable stream of stladents has been flowing toward Soochow University since yesterday after-for their strike, and binding noon. The full enrollment cannot pledges to obey their faculty. be known for several, days, but It is understood that these old everything points to it being quite students are now returning in a large. When the University clos-chastened spirit of humility; preed its doors during the students' pared to eat all the "humble pie" strike last month, the faculty re-required of them for their received numerous letters from the! instatement. It is to be hoped faculties of other colleges and that not only the students of Soo-universities in China, urging them! chow University, but also those of to stick by their guns, and to allow; many of the schools have learned looked strange|D0ne of the striking students to their lesson, and that it will end and unrea] to them return without humble apologies: all these puerile strikes.
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