'Three officials who were in office during the: trouble at Chenchou in August, 1902, have recently been prot ro' go to
chou.
Ghangsia and the other remains in Chen-
The ©. N. Ca. has a sentative surveying the routes from Yochou to Changsha and Siangtan and also to Changteh. The Tongting Jake! is so low at that a passenger native boat would not know he was on a lake as the banks of the Siang River are several feet high. Trackers could haul their boats from the pagoda at Yochou, to the pagoda, 180 li south, which marks the Entrance of the Siang waters into the lake in the summer months.
'The Hunan S. S. Ca. alo has men surveying the above routes. 'They found two or three places on the Siang' River, as it winds through the now dry Tongting Lake, with only about two feet} of water, and in the Yuen River, below Nueolshnghsien, here is only about 14 inches of water at present. Boats may ie ran, vid the cargobo routes along the south side of the e, for six or seven months per year.
The Kuangsi Trouble, according to an official and soldiers interviewed, who had just returned from the S.W, Hunan-Kuangsi borders, is likely to continue indefinitely because of the guerrilla methods adopted. Hunan soldiers have not: only been furnished by the thousands for Ruangsi, but now hundreds are heine sent down river. Aside from 300 from Shansi by Steamer, the writer saw a large number of big junks filled with soldiers en route to, they said, Wi and Kiukiang. Possibly their destination is farther nor (most oun ows connESPONDENT.) lith January.
China's Industrial Future.
We are glad to notice any indications of interest in the United States in China's industrial future. Our city was recently visited by three gentlemen sent out by the Carnegie Institution of Washington for exploration in Eastern Asia. Their investigation of Shantung has resulted in an impression that that province is not rich in mineral wealth. They have now gone into Shansi and expect to continue {ato Szech'van, Their full report may be expected within a year from now and will be awaited with interest. Something like A Public School has at last been: opened in the city. Scholars are received from all classes. English is taught or at least attempted.
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