Hankow, July 8.
Three men, 18 women and 27 children arrived at Hankow to-day on board the Tungting.
'They left Chungking by the Wan-fong on July 4, with 42 others who stopped off at' Ichang.
The refugees state that exagmerated accounts of the Shanghai affair gave the agitators the opportunity for which thy had been waiting Foreigners were stoned and threat ened in the streets and local ofticials were exceedingly nasty. The situation became ce serious that Mr. "Archer, the British Consul, on July B called all members of the British Community to Lurgmenkao. where they wer told to board the B. & 8. steamer Wanfong. Busine-linen and half a dozen missionaries remained behind.
There was no anti foreign feel ing at Tchang.
Thoveh the situation in Wuhan remains peaceful, boycott agitate for th: last few days have been pressing {gr the adoption of their resolutions. They now propose to hold, a demonstration on July 11 {in "memory" of the, Hankow affair Jong hope to, initiate, an anti-Anglo-Wapaneso boycott on that day. Whether the Tupan will consent to the demonstration remains to be disorder has been reported from th: interior; it is prcelsely in the len concessions where are force \onteoed police and fasted ran \that the shedding of blood {place. This should com nce th Powers that the niore ella you put upon fore the worse will th: In view of the present unprecedented crisis, we love that it behoves: the foreign Powers to make a frank declara of their willingness to render full tone period of about \anined with the roentha before retired on aupera and a true one hod a ccrtnta stubbornness in natare, yet, he wae sonorous to 8 fault, openchearted to a woul make che weald accept ce and in the proposed revision of tre ties. This can surely be done without losing their dignity. and it wil do far more to quiet down the tense feeling of the Chinese anything the Chinese Government can promise or carry out."
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