Our. town Gibraltar China's turbulent waters—it stands firm and placid as though there were no waves on the outside. Even the. student disturbance did not reach Us.
The train the Netherlands Minis" ter was aboard on his way to Peking was delayed here for 86 hours due activities of students on the train, The bland, quiet mane per of the Minister under the stances was good to sce—evidently it was What he expected, Every one is agog in preparation for an'old fashioned China Now Year. The government is s0 busy lover more important matters. that not troubling over the New Year. You may recall in the spring wrote about the Governor cleaning lout the prisons and hot after audits, truly wae a suitable remedy. Things have been fairly-quiet since. All got a scare the other morning ecatise of the city gates being closed—but it proved to be some prisoners had escaped and by that Jmeans they were captured.
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