Peking, Mar. 17.
A strange story which is being widely circulated among the Chi-nece is believed by the masses and more than half-credited by many others. A priest at the Wofossa or "Sleeping Buddha" Temple, in the Western Hills, relates how he could not sleep one night. recently owing to strange noises; finally he rose and went out to the court yard where he found the famous Sleeping Buddha walking round. The Buddha told the trem= Dung priest that an era of peace would dawn in China next autumn, Reuter,
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