Peking, Sept. 26.
The Government has wired to General Hsiao Yao-nan, Tuchun of Hupeh, instructing him to cooperate with the Honan authorities in suppressing bandits on the borders between the two provinees as quickly as possible.—Reuter.
ANGERED at the conduct of the restaurant-keepers and others in Canton, who declined to agree to an increase of taxes for war purposes and thereupon declared a strike and closed their shops, Dr. Sun Yat-sen has decided, according to the "Shanghai Journal of. Commerce," to punish them by levying upon them another extra tax of $100,000, the latter being considered a fine It is hardly surprising to read that "there is a general exodus from Canton."
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