In the upper Yangtze Wu Pei-fu is supporting Gen. Yang Sheng, the Szechuanese commander of what used to be the 2nd Szechuan Army. He hopes to push him back into Szechuan and dominate that province, thus gaining control of the whole Yangtze if Sun Ch'uanfang can hold his own at the lower end of the river. Cut off from Chihli and by Tsao Jui's man-cures, Wu Pei-fu is obviously making an effort to gain control of Central and South Chinai before he turns his attention to the North again. What he is really accomplishing we shall not know until spring, the season of alli political revel A writer in the Hongkong Telegraph" says:—The other day we received a basket of quail from a friend in Hanoi, but some of the birds arrived dead and others died soon after arrival here. They had had no food, and worm this Colony, who now talk so much of our S.
A., and the fine work it is doing, ought to inquire a little closer into the conditions under which our poultry, our beef and our pigs are brought from adjacent ports. Many of the birds and animals are brought fairly long journeys on which they have no chance of getting either food or water, sometimes 48 hours elapse between their shipment and arrival. Ts it possible to do anything to alter that state of affairs? Tt ought to be, seeing that many of the boats engaged in such a trade are British.
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