We read worry in the faces of the! merchants. The China New Year is approaching and many have their backs to the wall. The—falling Jeugpiao is like the sword of Damocles, and no one knows how much farther it will descend or what, steps the authorities will take to] arrest ils further collapse. It is a military currency and everybody! distrusts the militarists, especially at this time, with ominous rumours of all kinds in circulation. Unlike] the taiywan, which has some sem-Blanco of specie at the back of it, fengpiao money has nothing at its ack.
The shooting of Gen. Yang Cho} has created a nervy atmosphere: is being whispered about in the Japanese city that general is in nego Yuwhsiang. It is 2 fine kettle of fish if this is true. One does not see the Red consular folk about so often now. The Soviet consular compound is as dead as a graveyard, In Harbin, however, the comrades are much livelier. Comrade Lashe-Fitch is doing his utmost to come!
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.