The clause in the Salt agreement which provides for the immediate payment of $2,000.09) which the Government obviously does not have, From Our Own Correspondent, Changchow, Dec. 7.
After passing through a period of great unrest, when it was feared that the city night be attacked either by the Independent troops or Chen Chining-ming's forces, Changchow is now fairly quiescent. We have our own Civil Government, the Taoyin and district magistrate are both local men, whose main concern seems to be to keep the military supplied with funds, and the people are well content so long as actual fighting or looting is averted.
News has come down from Lung-wen, which is the key to the Changchow district, that' Chen Chiung-ming had over 20,00 troops there which were very shortly to be joined by another 20,000 from Shonghong. The advance upon Changchow was then to fake place, but no fighting was expected here, as the small garrison would retire before the forces which would occupy the city. This was to be an incident in the march vid Tongshan and Chuangchow to Foochow. Two other bodies of troops were to operate from other directions with a view to dispossessing Hsu Ohungchih and bringing this province back to its allegiance to the Peking Government, after which Chen Chiung-ming's troops would all return to Canton. It appears, however, that Chen Chiung-ming is finding his hands too full in maintaining his own position for this plain of campaign to develop to his Satisfaction, The prospect of the Independence Army coming into Changchow is not regarded with favour. Chang h-ping is said to have an under-st nding with them, and while they ave taken over several district and the clause in the mines agreement providing for the payment of cities they are showing no signs of $5,000,000 by a company licensed desiring to interfere with the small by the Chinese Government, are garrison he has left here. In some also subject. here to very general parts the assumption of a definite suspicion. The presence of Pan {status by the Independence Army Fu and Chin Yun-nang on the side-{has had a restraining effect upon lines, with their Chin Ta Company them, yet in others they are arouse formed for just such participation ling resentment by their levies and in the "restoration" of Shantung, holding persons to ransom. focuses suspicion upon them and improvements in this district upon the signatory Chinese parties; have come to an end for lack of to the agreement..
The same ap-/ funds with which io carry them plies to the clauses providing for! out. 1 am sorry to hear that a the repurchase of lands now being! great deal of opium is again being developed by Japanese in the! cultivated. Reports ere constantly Kiaochou territory. coming in of orders being given for On the whole the local assump- people to plant, but no documenttion is that China really got very} ary evidence enjoining planting is little but spiritual satisfaction out forthcoming.
The people general-of this "restitution" and that ly are eager to grow opium when Parliament will also make this! official repression cannot be en-discovery before the existing forced, and among the gentry of documents come to be ratified. soothe various towns and villages that there will be some interesting some are keen to come forward
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