While this city is the home of no incunsiderable portion of the foreign residents of Szechuan, being the seat of the various Consu's and the base for the works of the Imperial Customs staff, still a nijority of the foreigners live in scattered homes throughout the three provinees of the west—Szechuan, Kueichou, and Yunnan. It was therefore a surprise and disappointment to many that Mr. Wilton, H. B. M.'s etticient Consul, found it necessary to issue an order forbidding any of the ladies among his constituency to go inland from Chungking.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.