Far more important, from: the standpoint of the class who pay the piper on all occasions, is the demand that the trading permits held by all the lange shops shall be cchangod for new ones and the neces fees paid. These permits are libeld by all the dealers in food stuffs such as oil, rice and groceries, by cloth-merchants and drapers and many others. As. the merchants hold' that there is nothing int terms on which the existing permits were issued to warrant this demand. for their renewal, about 900 of the large shops stopped business for a time yesterday as a protest. nese city and Honam, most of them having taken up their quarters on Shameen.
Li nis closely" watching itself is quiet, Marshal
events and his influence with the populace is having a remarkably quietening effect.
Four Japanese destroyers are due to-day, presumably as a precautionary measure—Reuter.
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and six safety seized 72 automatic nistals from an incoming steamer on Saturday but_the owner could not "be found. The Commissioner, Col. Tai Shih-fu, has asked the Gendarmerie
t grant half of the cay d Commissioner, Ges, Chien oat weapons for the use of
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