We have recently had a change; of magistrate and the new official is supposed to be a Fengtien man. Your correspondent was on the street on] Friday afternoon when a soldier ran into the different shops, telling them to hang out flags, and' welcome the The question on every-they be! Better or worse than those who have left?" Night came, and till late, no soldiers had arrived, and fear was everyone's heart, that the old goldiers who were not far away would come back and loot.
Meantime this afternoon more Fengtien troops have arrived and there is word of 200 Russians, who, fas far as your correspondent can make out, use "hand grenades." The panic amongst the townspeople is terrible, The mission compounds are pretty well packed with Nobody knows what is going happen, everybody is seared to be in the streets as all, even to water carriers, are being caught either to. be burden bearers or soldiers. To-day they have even gone into the shops; and seized shopmen, so it is reported.
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