The New Year in Hankow has been marked by the usual round of festivity and pleasure-seeking, Theatres and places of amusement have been thronged, and their proprietors have been making enough money to tide them over the dull periods of the year. There is some. disseust on the part of the public because the New World has raised its prices. Entrance tickets ure now 400 cush instead of 300, and side-shows are 800 instead of 600, In one of the theatres on the|- Hankow Malo a disturbance occurred which might have been serious.
appears that two actors began
of according to the programme, deliver some speeches schich were The audience were bored und, losing Patience, began throwing bricks, stones and stools at the actors. The latter retaliated by hurling" back stools and benches at the audience, Heads were broken and blood began to flow, when fortunately police and soldiers arrived on the scene anil ut an end to the fracas A lift i touches Chinese dignity has just been patch-satisfactorily in Hankow. Adjoining, the new Customs Housa at the. end of the Bund, open space which is not wit concession boundary, and it has been the custom that this space should be patrolled by a Sikh policeman ese have felt it to be an indignity that ground which is in their own territory should be thus guarded, so through the Commissioner of Forjeign affairs the matter has been brought to the notice of the British Consul. After 17 communications, the matter has been settled. The has been removed, and a Chinese policeman now lounges about the space in question.
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