Commercial developments of all Kinds are being discussed, city at the moment is interested in the long-delayed cotton factory the capital for which is said to be now practically subscribed. An electric ighting scheme is under considera tion notwithstanding the failure of ithe company in the rival city of Hungtung to produce any light. Then 'a branch motor road, and a large number of smaller and larger companies to develop textile manufac tures and introduce mechant@l power in various trades, are passing through the preliminary stages tall, The remarkable boom on trade around here augurs well for the possible "consummation of a - good many of these projects. One éan-not go far afield these. days. with-fut seeing evidence of prosperity fand luxury, in remarkable contrast {to conditions: even in. good. years decade ago, The village child who was content with mud pies then now wants boats of tin, toy motorcars and india rubber balls, while his big, brother sports a tennis racket, Jana Messer trols ut ety shops a regular "shopping. expendi~ tion" and with nonchalant air boys feminine eteetras which were total-unheard of until the recent vent of the "foreign sundries stores."
answer to the question, "Where [does the money come from?" the tone reply seems to be the disap= pearance of opium and. the me crease of cotton cultivation, Highway robberies took place cently on the motor-roud and ple began to wonder "if Shan Veginning to. fall into. with other provinees, - But immed ately the Governor issued a pam Dhlet for the information of a Jing of the discovery of seven or eight of the bandit fraternity in a village in the Kuwo district, and reiterating his orders that not a single suspected household must. be overlooked. Suspicious characters rust not be tolerated in any elreu stances in any community and Sha si must at all costs be kept safe, 'Tox10, June 22.—Mr. 'Tomoichiro Yosuhiro, P.C., will succeed Mi Kawamura, President of the South Manchuria' Railway, who has resigned—Reuter's Pacific Service,
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