Rumours were then circulated] against officers of the Chamber accusing them of making loans to Marshal Sun Chuan-fang and other militarists in the fight against the Anti-Northern Expeditionary Army, and of selling certain government property, near the Arsenal and facing the Huangpu River, to the Japanese for the construction of Wharves, 'These, naturally, have not been corroborated and, so far fas we have been able to learn, there Ys not an ounce of trath in' them.
Meanwhile, numerous letters were addressed to the gentlemen ques reiterating the demands for and threatening them with oath if they did not accede, Letters came from the "Dare-to-Die Corps," the "Iron Society," "Blood and Iron Society," the "Assassination Corps," ete.
The members of the Chamber then mot and decided that, come what might, they would not' give in to any of the demands. As to calling a general strike and advoeating an anti-foreign movement, they were strongly opposed to it and were of the opinion that such was not the wish of the general public, but simply of a few loafers whose aim was merely to enrich them-
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.