The local official situation is utterly confused, except for a confirmed popular fear that there will be riots at the Mid-Autumr festival.
The secret societies, which, are mostly fanatical Buddhist sects, make less impression with their prophecies of woe than the copper' note exchange, which the officials make no attempt to adjust. All the local police; soldiers, constabulary and Bannermen pensioners are paid in this currency on holidays; so half the local population are frantically distressed and are busy commissioning soldiers to change their notes in the cash shops, offering thd uniformed men q cumshaw to do so. Riots therefore are feared when the soldiers try to force the face value of the notes for exchange on the banks and cash shops.
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