With a breath-taking suddenes the Government clamped down the 1d on the Wolfram Monopoly Bureau 0 Wednesday night. Gen, Chen Chai tang put his signature down to this edict, and' Shameen buyers without previous notice have to forego the profs from "the lucrative buying and selling of this mineral ore.
Buying "has been done through bidding, the highest offer on any day getting the right to purchase, and ie has been a cumbersome arrangement' anyway, for exporters to Europe have had to have offers in advance from the European consignees before they have been, able to put in bids.
'At 10 o'clock on the morning following the bidding, the successful firm heard from the Bureau, and. by had to pay its" bargain' money. All opportunity for communicating the price to the buyers across the ocean was thereby cut off, and few Shameen houses have been interested {in trading under such conditions.
Provisions and other booty which fell into the hands of the communists when they gained the Kweichow tre pot of Chenyuan Tuesday morning are pecuniary the loss to the Government, tke material gain to the Reds being at least $3,000,000. A feder was made the Sunday before, but the radicals were afraid of fallin into a trap, and did not strike for all they were worth until the 1th.
In between spies penetzuted the Government tines and learns? the truth. Only two regiments, not two divisions from Nanking had reached Chenyuan, there were perhaps 1,003 Mantuan, and no otters—8,000 Reds were then brought up, and the reg-Ulars showed their heels.
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