Feb. 20.
In order to avoid the risk of losses due to the vagaries of the Fengpino currency, several of the leading cereal. dealers at Mukden refused to sell any more of their stocks, except for gold notes or Inrge' silver dollars. This step which caused considerable distress among the population having ether tender than fengpiao, mediately aroused the ire of the authorities, who arrested the heads of some of those firms and declared the stocks of all recalcitrant dealers Hiable to confiscation, the police to receive one ianlf of all confiscated goods and the other half to be distributed among the poor.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.