Kashing, Dec. 21.
'The city is recovering from the panic of December 15-16. It seems that the District Magistrate with a few representatives of the Chamber of Commerce, the Local Self-Government Societies and others, after.|strenuous efforts, arranged' to supply the military' authorities with rice, salt-vegetable and fud, Nearly half market price is paid in cash, the balance in notes.
Proclamations are urging merchants to do business, and boats run as usual, The doors opened Jand mail and passenger bouts have resumed schedules. The soldiers fare behaving very well, s0 far, no looting or other disturbance, is reported, On the railway, trains do come and go, but ti are flexible.
Throughout the excitement of more than 10,000 soldiers coming going and camping here, the Cus toms, postal, telegraph, " telephone and electric light services carried on steadily, There are Chinese who maintain a high sense of duty under stress and strain,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.