These are days of a good deal of nervousness in our city and throughout the district. The many rumours of concentration of troops on the northern border which are current, coupled with very real distress on the part of the poor over the prevailing high prices of all food commodities, are undoubtedly responsible for this nervous tension.
The stories of troop concentration in the north are not based on any other facts than the widespread rumours of impending troubles and the strict military censorship that the Tuchun maintains over the incoming papers. The local papers are heavily subsidized by the Governor, and so he has very little to fear from the dissemination unfavourable comments within the province. His Excellency is very apprehensive of the ill effect of adverse criticism from whatever source it may' come, and it is not infrequent that the incoming papers are shorn of all such before they reach the public. This is effected by the simple expedient of having hia men always in the local post office to examine the papers and act according to their contents.
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