According to the Chinese pre the new season's cocoons have been placed on the market, Silk mer= chants, however, are ' experiencing difficulty in purchasing them owing to the activity of bandits, On Muy 16 the proprietor of a cocoon hong at Wu Shing district, Chekiang, was robbed of $20,000 gang of these bandits. The money. was intended for the purchase of new cocoons.
On the evening of the same day over $7,000 was stolen from a cocoon hong near Zang An, Chekiang.
On May 19 bandits plundered nearly all shops at Zay Lien Tseng, Wu Shing district, when a volunteer iwas killed by them, The provincial authorities Hangchow have been requested to Send soldiers to suppress the bandits who are thus killing the silk trade, Tux Waichiaopa is reported by, the ""Sinwanpao" to have informed the Italian and German Mi ters in Peking that the National Government's air squadrons will shortly start serial bombardments tt in order to ensure the lives of foreigners in that region, the German and Italian residents. should immediately evacuate the war zone.
MrncHants of Shanghai-hsien have proposed to Gen. Niu Yan-chien, former chairman of the Kiangsu Provincial Government and funds be raised for the re-building of the tomb and the construction of a memorial.hall for the late Mr.
Chow Yung, one of the revolutionary leaders who was arrested by the Manchu officials and executed shortly before 1911.
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