The propagandists are also running true to last year's form, No. tone who has watched the Southern preparations closely can believe that. they have very much enthusiasm. about this Northern expedition. Yet they must make a stab at it. If the Northernces offer. a stubborn resi tance the attack will die down last year, but in the meantime the Propagandists are busy with their ready-made alibi. Every one knows perfectly well that at the first intimation of danger the Japanese wil repeat last year's programme and pour in enough troops to guar-antes the safety of Tsingtao and Tsinan. Immediately the Southern. cora will raise an awful howl that the Japanese have thwarted them and prevented them from occupying what they have already won, ete. The same tales will ly from mouth to mouth declaring that the Japanese have donned Chinese uniforms and fought the Southerners back, And it seems that they are working very hard to very state of affairs. hardly any news at all, ood oF bad ig received from the Northern ide along the border, the "paper advance" of the Southerners is he-raided far and wide.
Meanwhile the Am ers have "dropped in" off the Bund. Japanese marin.
Possibly soldiers are expected any day, Traffe to and from Haichow is now prohibited from either end. home societies, will inspire fresh indignation and enthusiasm in native les. Nearly all are refugees from police "tyranny" in Shanghai who Keep in touch with the outside World through agents in Shanghai who imagine that their activities are not yet open to suspicion.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.