Plenty of movement of cargo from Hankow to Shanghai is Vouched for by our informant, but the upward movement is_nil from, Shanghai, Regarding the shops catering to foreign or foreign educated Chinese, present stocks arg declared to be getting cleared out and among the patrons noted ai some of the 200 to 300 Russi Bolsheviks who buy goods with Danknotes which are discounted about 15 or 20 per cent. by the loca) stores. There are rumblings from the coolie class in Hankow, Jaccording to the information obtain: fed in this direction, and far from being paid by Labour Unions fur their strikes, it is stated definitely that each member must pay something towards the upkeep of the Union. During the present _mobilization for the Peking campaign, each union is expected to fornish 20 mon for the army.
Our informant denied knowledge of the report that conscription is, being carried on by the Hankow government at the rate of one man out of every three. The Wuhan government, he said, claims to have 0,000 men'in the army a part of which has been engaged on the Honan border, and there are 60,000 pickets available, according to Russian computation in oficial circles.
With yesterday's reports 'Southern reverses in Honan, however, the campaign to Peking' seems to have been temporarily deflected!,
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