During the last fortnight the whole city has been greatly stirred by a strange exhibition of mass psychology bordering on the hysterical. Follow ing Reports from Luchow and other upper river ports, that assassins used poisoned needles to jab unsuspecting, pedestrians in crowded thoroughfare: the populace suddenly became panicky as reports began to arrive at police headquarters of victims who Wwere overcome from the effects of those silent slayers.
One rather well-dressed man gave the rumour a great boost by devel~ aping a sharp pain in his shoulder following a bump from a passer-by. Although it was announced By medical examiner that, It was nothing more than a ce-incidental flea-bite, the event precipitated a whole ste desertion of cinemas and a sudden falling off of about Atty per cent. of the "smaller school pupils. Large numbers of alleged victims flocked to the hospitals and Chinese doctors logan putting up signs that they had a feerer cure for the poison.
'The excitement of the people and the dismay of the amusement houses reached such lengths that the Generalissimo's headquarters sent out, plainelothesmen who went around giving people a dig in the ribs with their' thumbs. After they were arrested and taken {0 headquarters along with their victims loudly declaring that, they had violent pains and aches, the whole farce was exploded and, given liberal publietty In the press," resulted in the sudden collapse of the excitement. able of wenly years of exploitation al the rate of four tons per day. The erst of one ton has been figured at $130, and the inltinl expenses in connection with the mines at $1,700,000.
Kuanhslen has long been considered, by both Chihese and foreign experts alike, as the ideal site for the generation of electricity by hydraulic power. A party sent by the Reconstruction Commissioner investigate conditions, however, has reported that such an undertaking, Ig not suitable for the spot planned, due to the large amount of sand and broken stones carried by the streams Inthe region,
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