It may be that those who are feeling a hankering to get into Shansi have a different object view. There is a small arsenal in Taiyuanfu, and for some months it has been working at top speed. Just now a expert is in charge of the munitions-making there. This is quite likely to howe excited the covetousness of men whose ability to govern is dependent upon the condition of their cartridgeboxes. I believe the local papers in Shansi have been. forbidden to print any of
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.