Attempt to Create Trouble by Payment of Troops with Worthless Notes Peking, Aug. 3.
Plotting against the peace of Peking with the ulterior motive of creating an opportunity -for intervention, from without is ported in well informed Chinese circles. Evidence is forthcoming to-day by the fact that the fifty and one-hundred copper notes are not redeemable. This is stated to she part of the scheme for creating trouble in the capital; fox the Metropolitan troops, the gendarmerie and the police were recently paid in these notes, and these men are not likely to accept the position in silence. It is estimated that about $400,000 worth of these notes have been issued by the Kuanchienchu under the Ministry of Finance.
In Chinese circles it has been known for some time that those who ave endeavouring to pull strings. behind the scenes have wished either Gen. Wang Huai-ching, Commander of the Peking Garrison, or Gen. Feng Yuhsiang, to allow their troops to get out of hand, and be suppressed by the other, but neither. has shown any inclination to allow himself to be sacrificed.
Gen. Lu Chun, Marshal Tsao Kun's chief of staff, now appears as another Richmond in the field. He has come to Peking and, feeling certain that he would not ultimately suffer, is prepared to permit his 9th Division to cause the trouble which would afford excuse for entry from without because of disorder in the capital owing to the absence of a responsible head.—Reuter.
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