monstration on Saturday, in whic Toba was slight-authorities akin to they fear that other agitators will age of the situation to create di turbances.
The Chinese authorities consider Toa himsel€ to blame, as_ police military cordons surrounded the n An Gate, where the demonstration was being held, and refused to allow any foreigners, not even newspaper correspondents, to. approach. Toba, however, evaded the cordon and mixed with the crowd, whereupon a number of the demon-strafers rushed towards him. The police intervened, rose could be done, assert that they information recently arrived here with the tention of stirring up violence, flammatory posters discovered here and there have been promptly for Though there is an undercurrent of excitement, the city is outwanily very quiet, It is believed that the ures being taken by the authorities will prevent trouble, though the vast numbers of unemployed and destitute persons naturally cause fon the railway: our informant was sending some goods up the Peking-Hankow line and was suddenly presented with a demand for 30 per cent. of the freight charge, asa tax, He had to pay. In another stance, on a consignment of goods Journes, welled to Changteh in Honan, a four days'
twenty times their original figure between the points of departure and arrival. The demand was cventualcompromised at fourteen times!
What is so cruel and heartless is only a few miles out in the country, stopped and made to give money the worthless harpies of five different likin stations.
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