Mischievous Rumours Unfounded: Special Message from Gen Lu Yung-hsiang In consequence of reporte from the North of the possibility of an outbreak of hostilities between Kiangsu and Chekiang, a good many people who were intending to spend the summer at Mokanshan have been made very nervous. We have written to our Hangchow correspondent asking him to obtain some statement from General Lu Yung-hsiang, the Tuchun, for general reassurance. Our correspondent now sends us the following letten eselvod on Sunday from General I am hastening to reply to your letter. Owing to an indisposition I was unable yesterday to see visitors, and later when you telephoned I was unable to speak to you over the phone personally, In connexion with Mokanshan, may I inform you that there are Chinese and foreigners visiting this summer resort who find everything very peaceful, hence all rumours to the contrary are absolutely without foundation. I hope, therefore, that note of this may be taken by everybody concerned.
With best' wishes, I am, etc., Our correspondent further says that he knows that General Lu has specially sent soldiers to guard the route to Mokanshan, not that he fears any outbreak, but to reassure travellers. Further information from the yamen at Hangchow is to the effect that there is no possible danger this summer of trouble between Chekiang and Kiangsu.
We may add that a similar assurance fom a very authoritative source at-Nanking has reached us regarding the wholly peaceable disposition of Tuchun Chi Hsieh-yuan.
Neither General Lu nor General Chi is in the slightest degree the kind of man who would make gratuitous trouble. They rule their provinces well and by com mon consent are much more concerned to keep the peace in their respective domains than to fly at each other's throats over the squabbles of Peking, which really touch them not at all and are sufficiently sordid to disgust every, self-respecting man. trary, incur the contempt of the Chinese. In the present political situation, however many times diplomatic documents may he forwarded to the Ohinese Government, it would be useless, The Japanese Government, therefore, should, on the basis of reason, endeavour tO carry their principles. It may be as well for Japan to resort to steps required to show her national power, according to circumstances."—~—Eastern News Agency.
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