Feb, 7.
The military seem to be taking afl the troops they can possibly spare down river. As soon as ship flying the French or Italian flag arrives she is at once seized! and laden, The Kuei-Lee, and the Foo-Shen of the China Merchants are also trooping.
One of the smallest ships on the upper run, the Chi Lan, arrived today with 35 foreign passengers, and they, with many others to arrive to-morrow, will leave for the coast on the Shasi. Ichang is very peaceful in these days, and the New Year liduys have been used by the]
nationalists" to hold many demonstrations, To-day there is one, said" to be in memory of a lawyer Jwho was executed at Wuchang last year by Wu Pei-fu. There wa huge lantern procession on the night of the 4th,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.