Suspected or naving wrecked a large transformer by which reason Sakuan and Shameen was plunged in a darkness the night of the 28th of July, two men, it is now known, were the same evening brought to book.
Alighting from a south-bound train at Sinchi on the Canton-Hankow Railway early yesterday morning, five men wandered about, taking a particular interest in the appearance of the headquarters of the 153rti Division. Guards took them inside for questioning, and where they came from, where they were going, why they were so curious sbout what the military were doing, from not one was any intelligible answer obtained to any question, Silver reserves held in Shanghai were shipped to Hongkong banks for safekeeping, and the question has been asked, how about the silver reserves here in Canton? Mr. Tsung Ngo, Chairman of the Currency Control Board, has given out that conditions here not warranting such action, there is no thought of any change in the place of custody.
To the $3,500,000 which comes from Nanking monthly for the troops in Kuangtung $600,000 was added in February owing to the very high cost of rice. Now an additional $500,000 has been tacked on the monthly appriating, bringing the total up to $4,600,000 for a monthly period.
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