16th March. ACCORDING to 5 paivale letter received yesterday from Chungking, that port was to be formally opened on the Ist of March. Under the conditions to which our government has agreed, in the face of the melancholy "divergence of opinion," we do not know that the exact date of opening is of much consequence to aby one, but some authority might have notified it, in case there was any one anxious to establish himself in business there. As Chungking was to be opened, according to the agreement, on the 18th of January, when the ratifications were exchanged, there was plenty of time between that date and the 1st of March to notify the public. We put the date on record now, so that when Chungking holds its jubilee, in 1941, there may be no question about the exact date.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.