No appreciable improvement in the local cholera: situation was reported by the National Quarantine Office for the week. ending on Sentember 26," Of the 74 eases, there were nine deaths, including. 8 foreigner, as, compared to the 78 eases with one death forthe previous week.
There is no cause for alarm, the report states, the situation being well in hands of the officers who combat the discase. In reviewing" the situation, "the "report write we may feel justifel in looking forward toa rapid decline the cidence of the disease in the near ature."
Of the 74 cases reported last week, 29 cases, Including one "foreign, were reported in the International Settlement, seven ences, including tone foreign, in French "Concession and $8 in Chinese territory. Three als One foreigner died of Geaths Were reported from. each
cholera' in the French Concession.
Newspaper Canard Blamed for Causing Trouble Owing, it is said, to an incorrect} newspaper report that the Nankin Lranch of the National Industri Bark of China had been compelled to suspend business on Thursd afternoon as a result of heavy W drawal of money by its eu there was a "run" on. the hea office of the bank in Shanghi Frid The majority of the people who visited the bank to demand hard cath yesterday were native bank assistants who, told. a representa-five of the "North-China Daily News" that there was a rumour among the Chinese community that the bank in question was a Sino-Japanese concern, hence the run on its Nanking and local branches by the Chinese who had threatened to sever their economic relations with all concerns Japanese or having Tapanese share Interviewed in regard to the! rumour, Mr. Lin" Ti-chih, general manager of the bank, enter-Jed an emphatic denial and' stated that his bank was an entirely Chinese concern and a member of the Shanghai Chinese Bankers Association. Tt held sufficient cash reserves against its note issue and its month-Ly report. in this connection was being published regularly in the native press. Mr. Liu blamed a Japan-lose newspaper for causing the ran fang said he had written a letter ito the paper, demanding an ¢3 planation of the situation this morning.
Asked how much his bank had paid out Mr. Lio stated that the sum amounted to a little over two lakhs, but that his bank was meeting mands without difficulty and that it had not asked: for any outside assistance.
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