FAVOURABLE, Fighting in Province and End of Banditry Bu bea eatsed by the tee years of famine, the low price of silver is beginning retake ele felt AN the BE! stores dealing in foreign com tier ave badly tits "They dare not pat up their prices to mest the irate of exchange, for people woul hot buy, and they exnnot alford to purchase new stocks of foreign foods at the loctensed sates General condone, however, are more favourable then they "bach cen for many yours." There fehting: in' the" province, bendiery oka pul dow and' thereon are looking forward to n goof hose fest and i repre to something ike oShenal a'uendlag 15 delegates 30 the National' Conference, one' fiom isa worn: This de. the esta Sua, lis eer ince and it isle tga of the Whee, ceted ate sentative, General Cha Pel-teb, expected to arrive in Sianfu shotty. ing during these three terrible years Jof famine. Tt speaks well for the present Chairman, Yang Hu-chen, that he has shown his practical sympathy with the suffering people bby. his willingness to ea-operate la. this scheme at a time when the [provincial finances were a lower ebb—Rewbery lat)
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