in North China, is understood to have rejected the Hopel provincial chaic~ man's request for military assistance suppressing the trouble, He further said to have counselled Gen, Shang to desist from seeking a sett ment of the outbreaks by force and to have urged him to take measures towards alleviating the tax burden against which the farmers are volting.
According to reliable reports, normal conditions have been restored in Hsiangho, where the agitation first ered up on Sunday. Shops re-opened yesterday morning. while the a ministration ig going on as_ usual under the "autonomous" regime established by the revolting farmers.
'An understanding whereby the present magistrate, Mr. Ho An-clit former chairman of the Peiping' 'Chamber of Commerce, who war elected by an assembly of farmers will be replaced by an appointee of Gen. Shang is generally anticipated by observers, who see' the trouble moving toward a settlement—Reng>
Referring Yo the farmer's uprising in Hsiangho, Col. Tekahashi said that Japan will decline to. permit Gen. Shang Chen to use force to suppress the movement, as the district [situated in the Demilitarized Zone.
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