The tufei are meantime keeping quiet, that is the most that can be said of them. There has been some talk that the Japanese boycott was off; and so it is as far as the merchants are. concerned, but not so in the schoolboy's thoughts. This week the schoolboys seized some Japanese goods that had reached here in a boat, and yesterday prepared to burn it. The Merchants' Guild turned out in force, and after a skirmish with mud and stones returned victorious with the cloth. Both sides received some damage, though not serious. Now the schoolboys have appealed to the magistrate and the merchants with ie few exceptions have "struck" and closed shop.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.