into Panic Fnox A Conessroxoexr Macao, Dec. 24.
To the uninitiated the Mond: morning news that Macao had a re-Yolation all of its own was rather startling. Still, the roaring, rushing, motor-cars, the important-looking officers, and the military" patrols at every comer of the streets suggested that something unusual was in the making.
There was a rebellion, a revolution of clearest water going on full blast this little peaceful, beauti colony, and all this decidedly spoiling every suggestion of a peaceful Christmas.
Still more surprising was the news that all this trouble had started on the night before, Sunday evening, at about eight o'clock, when a group of soldiers at the principal Macanese fort, Fortaleza da Monte, told the est of the garrison to mind their own business, as the boys were going for better pay and what not, It almost impossible to get the real facts as to why and' how this hapy{digherpay. They wore not sup-pened, but still—there it was.
Your informant tried to take a walk along the streets surrounding the forts, he was politely but firmly told by an officer in command of detachment of jot black Africans to choose another neighbourhood, And; there was nothing else but to com Then I went to the Military Hen quarters and asked to see the ce mander of the military forces but he was of course not in, Dut somewhere in the field, and a Veutenant sent the orderly back with the card, telling me that he had no time to bother with me. So this is the actual reason I have to accept The most persistent of these is, "eu that a certain popular sergeant had: requested additional pay. He got 15 days in, gaol instead. As a Christmas present this was a rather scanty one, and it seems that the recipient from then on had decided to be-ome chief puppet of the show.
'A Very Martial Aspect Macao offered a very martial a pect indeed and patrols with chine-guns posted at the strategic points in the neighbourhood of the ik fort suggested determined activity, the part of the Miicanese authoriies. The population fled from the: neighbourhood of the fort, 'Those who could, took the very' first ang only boat for Canton on 'Monday night, while the rest star ed the best hotel in town, the Ric vera, which T believe was' the only. enterprise in the whole colony that} benefited by the upheaval. Every Toom was filled ard extra beds were popular, The night came and there was a fresh rumour that the city wottld be bombarded by the rebels and everybody awoke this morning rather surprised that nothing had happened. Still there could have happened a Tot. I presume that, it was only thanks to the diplomacy and tact of the military and civil authorities, that the city was spared, This morning, Tuesday, at 8.35, the machine-guns at a neighbouring fort began to rattle and there were few boomings of heavier pieces, But the uproar lasted only a few minutes, Those few minutes, however, were remarkable, In the otherwise 80 peaceful Praya harbour were hundreds of sampans and junks axily swinging to and fro with the tide, They all started as by magic to move with an unusual speed and the whole floating population was one seething screaming gesticulating Jabbering mass. Along the streets the empty rieshas for once took the prize as runners and the rest of Macao's hundred-odd thousands shrillled noisily out of reach of the bullets.
Just then the war was finished, \awhen the white flag was hoisted rem the mast of the fort.
And so dreamy, beautiful Macao is again as peaceful as before, only shivering in this unusually cold weather.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.