:|Drill as Earnest of the Desire to Fight From Our Own Comnesroxsene Wasib, Dec. 2.
Jat the present. time areely the present te to be largely Jeoncerned with the making of roads. The most" recent "event of this character is the opening, or rather Svidening to admit of modern trace, the voad between the North Gate fand the West. Gate. This road portant in that fi forms a short ject between the railway. and. Wel San, Ta Hloo Lake and ether Points of "beauty, which are" frequently issited by both Chinese and for-
"ihe students here, as elsewhere, have taken a Leading part. in the fantJapanese agitation" but "have Been guilty of no outrages or ex: esses The teachers, however, ind them very mach demoralized "as regards class work, az two hours a fare given fo delling, and this tales precedence of every "thine East week 2000 of the Senior Middle Hevea tadanto went to. Nanking for the now so popular "purpose of Gen. Chiang Kato to end The local boys were much pleased With the treatment they received from Gen, Chiang, who ts, said to teat boys from the interior with much more consideration than those rom Shanghai, as he has confidence In the patriotic. motives. of the former bat, looks "askance at the Shanghai students, us having. pro: bably a Communistic tendency stile the seniors were, ing the, younger boys made a eampaign of the city for the purpose fof raising fends. for a war chest, Which they. enthusiastically "hope Will be needed. As a result their efforts. they' were able to deposit inthe Bank' of China the of $2,000. As a result of the yeott, local industries are boom Ing. One of, the largest cotton tolls in the city is said to be talcng $2,009 a day, and by working day and night carrot keep up with the Semand. Bur while the. mills are} Profting, the merchants. are sutor Ing much hardship' on' account of having $2,000,000 tied up in Jo ese goods, which have been sealed up of confiscated, These merchants fare unable to meet their notes therefore, being the rate of 195 er cent.
'a flurry was caused in the] local money market last week, fall the banks going on strike. The local defenders cause of this action was that two were Tooling. beau: money shop of s man_for whom t)
alleged opium smoker. Wh twere requested "to. show fredentiais they refused to do s0, land the people inthe shop. were terrified, thinking they were robbe the banks heard of this they closed and sent a petition to the Supreme Court in Nanking, requesting that avy ofo bar obliged to show is searching
edentals on "demand. "The 21 snforee such a rule, they opened three days.
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