there is an uneasy feeling among sone of the business merchants here regarding the movement of} troops, It gems that Hsiung Shihe hui, the defence commissioner Shanghai, has two brigades of] troops in' the southern part of the province, the 14th and 16th, These troops were sent here at the time that: Hsiung was expected to come to Kiangsi, and the 16th are now on the move towards Shanzhai and fare to "vest" in Nanchang. "Coupled with this is the fact that there are some of the troops of Generals Liu and Tan of Changsha, Hunan, avriving in Kinngsi through Renchow, fon the western border. These facts have caused a sort of uneasy fecling among the merchants.
The money market is very tight and little business is being done. Agents are not stocking their regular amount of goods and merching their godowns.
'A delegation of pottery mer chants is here trying to arrange! some way in which the industry can yuin be brought to normal: Owing to the many taxes and other extras, business has suffered to such an extent that very little ie done, urge Invasion Reported Later We have just heard that the troops from Hunan are coming into Kiangsi by the hundreds. 'They' are entering all along, the western' border and have taken six cities in-juding Yuenchow, The authorities here have sent $100,000 to bribe the soldiers and to keep them from coming to Nanchang. The troops General Chu Hen-ting of Nan-cobang have been driven back by] the now arrivals.
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