The trade of China in Fukien refuses to follow the flag of the Rising Sun. The Custom's revenue of Amoy fs not one-sixth of what it was before the Japanese come and 90 per cent. of that. sixth consists of Uapanese goods. To evade the Custom's duty, {o9, Japanese warships bring in large Quantities of goods. Few of these things go inland: a rigid military vigilance is maintained. Two days. ago a Japanese cruiser shelled one of the villages near the terminus of the trunk-road. The village contained no Soldiers and never had done so, but it was. destroyed, levelled by shell fire: the terriNe reports of the huge guns startled Kulangsu from out of its usual dreamy morning somnolence. But the people did not imagine that the deafening rever~ beralions were flinging death to the peasants and form workers. Thirly persons were killed, all civilians, Some children, by this attack.
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