Conflicting Reports of Trade Conditions: Debenture Interest due in June News from Hankow is most confusing, on one hand one of [changes in the political and military ination which may or may not bring about better industrial conditions. On the other hand firms which contemplated returning members of their staff to Hankow have Jaltered their plang on receipt advices from Hankow indicating that conditions were such that normal business could not be resumed. Simultaneously arrives a cable from 'a large industrial undertaking state ing that all pickets have been wi drawn, and asking for the immed-fate return of full staff to permit! of the immediate resumption of crinal business. With such con-fioting reports it is impossivte to gauge the position at Hankow at all,
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