Q. How. is he going to raise the money?
'A. At first it was suggested that through selling a certain drug could secure a profit of $800,000. There were also suggestions for getting a loan from foreign banks of firms. But Gen, Wu thought hat ie was not fair increase Wahan at present is the stoppage] Shantung he hao added very cn-Other defeated troops who have the burden "of the, "people. of food plies from Honan. 14] siderably to Marshal Wu's miliary returned to these. parts are those geting money through Toans and strength and has made the return fof the 15th mixed brigade under'
Twas unjust to fool the people by, generally been possible to obtain supplies of beans and various Kinds of grain to ease the situation. The public Relief Bureau has ordered supplies of there} foodstuffs, and free passes for its transit have been obtained—from the railway company,.but owing] to the commandeering of the y line for military purpose, possible at present to have the stuff brought from the places in Honan where it is waiting for transport. Another plan to ye public theatricals performed order to raise money for feeding the poor. Hsiao Yao-nan has! recently sent to Peking a roques: for the famous actor Mei Lan-fang. to come and perform in Wuhan; of Marshal Wu to Loyang a distinct possibility for the near future.
Not only has Gen. Chin received his own and ex-Gen. Chang Fu-lai's forces under his command, but it is said that the infamous ' band of robbers that occu looted and burned Pochow so thoroughly a few weeks ago under Sun have joined him likewise.
Tt-is to be hoped that thi is untrue, though Sun Tien-ying's men declared they were under Gen. Wu's orders.
Tt now remains to be seen how soon Honan will be attacked from the northeast. Gen. men straggled back, footsore, sick and many of them without' rites. They are now along the Lung-H: come to the soppass, of the] lis ihey ae not perform in. ers ern' part of the province, all sure tet feet are ar atory Prefect" Kwok patu te Reneh vincevte, the dollanensh ex-/etumeat the dears, ox-[of Korii isnot at all friendly to change has rsan 19 false dollar notes are being culated at present, and two days arrested for at-
Sienal mam, The, nest few interesting developments.
General Yuan. They are not Shensi men but are the men who were invited by Hu Ching-i to come up from Anhui two years ago when they were to have been disbanded in that province. e then they have been stationed in the towns of Hsia-i and Yungch'eng, where their reputation has been' pretty good. I saw these troops, several thousand strong, moving down on Friday last from Yi Cheng, where they had arrived in a hurry the day before from Shantung, to muhehi, the next station east from here on the Lung Hai Railway. The position of these men is not an enviable one for they have remained loyal to Li Chi-tsai, and yet they would hardly want to follow him back to Shensi, if things come to that as so many think they They will most probably retire to the towns they occupied before this: ill fated raid into Shantung and try to make peace with the province's new masters.
The Pochow Brigands tempting to exchange for saar Ne n'tod of these notes at the|YUNNAN PROHIBITING IM-\ienying, the ravager of Pochow, The report is rife here that Shun Bank of China.
Copper coiners are also at work, and a great} many false "coppers are on the market, "The agitation about the salt tax].
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