Insulting Letter to Magistrate wont Our OWN Comesroxoner Tsangchow, Oct. 29.
uring the past week 'a situation has, developed in Tsangchow, which {is causing grave concern to the shop-seepers. and serious inconvenience and loss to small traders and the Poorer classes generally. In a previous letter I commented on the steady drain of silver dollars from this region, thanks to the apparently unrestricted activities of Koreans and others, who are to be seen any night or day on both slow and express trains travelling up and down the Tientsin-Pukow line This scandal goes on unabated and the authorities seem hypnotized by their bare-faced defiance of the law. Latterly, for some unaccountable there has been a remarkable tage of paper dollars and, as there is no denomination lower than five dollars available, "apart from coppers, for the purchase of dally necessities, the city folk are inclined to be panicky.
'Three days ago a report was started and quickly circulated: that a body of 200 soldiers in plain clothes had arrived by train from Tientsin and were bent on making trouble. When night fell, martial law was proclaimed in the' city and all strangers were closely questioned as to their buslness, The citizens were on the qui vive until well past midnight and. was 2 am, before the Magistrate and his subordinates decided it was a canard and retired to rest. similar nature, resistance would be made with firearms!
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