Once' again there are allegations that cargoes of ammunition are be: ing landed in the French and Jo: panes concessions for delivery. to And owing t0 information received, the thorities have decided to search all ins in transit. This is a proc only adopted in exe cumstances owing, to the opposition which is aroused, and its ado now would' indiedte that a serious effort is being made to smuggle ammunition from Hankow into the country districts, Even though the soothsayers may say that the lucky day has come, it is just as well not to try and take grandmother to her esting-place in the country just at Present. She had better say in the coal coffin-store a little longer.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.