The S. V. C's eye tion. They were selling soap, matches, food, perfumes in funny little bottles. Everywhers food!
jerywhere stench of filth and eeay, but nowhere dead bodies or the signs of dead bodiest As 9 matter of fact, if the dead are not in the open trenches, which we could not examine, if the statement of our guard that they had found coffinless graves is correct, the sanitary problem along the railway serious as wns at The railway is intact and in excellent condition from Chenju Quinsan. Bridge No. 24, which was cut, has been repaired by an engineering corps provided by Mi Lee Pao-chun and a foreign gineer of the Tientsin-Puiou Rai way. They got to work as soon the Chekiang troops surrendered, Our very heavy and awkward train passed over this bridge wit the slightest telephone and telegraph system working satisfactorily, except Dlock lights in parts. We were unable to learn whether the block ight system was' spoiled or whether had disappeared. littered with filth, passage altogether safe and satisfactory, but 2 railroad man of the Tientsin-Pukou line said that three ex four days' work with enough men would do the whole job.
The Trenches At Huangtu, we saw, the trend ches on both sides. They were practically of the same construc: tion, excepted that the Chekiang trenches were almost in a strai line, while the Kiangsu trenches aigeagged all over the place. Ther" were several lines of trenches and then on the Kiangsu side were the Lig guns, said by a guard to be sible to shoot 40 li, which, according to the same source, were only used three times during the war. He said that when the, Chekiang mea heard these guns fired, some nem died of fear. But one m take these stories much as they come.
Everywhere farmers were col-leeting their erops—mostly farmer women. The cotton crop was pro-ably spoiled, but the rice crop yas excellent and the farmers still ave a chance of a harvest, if the soldiers leave shortly. The soldiers do not bother the farmers too much, although chickens are probably dis appearing rapidly. Along the Fivers and streams, the soldiers fave occupied junks and sampans, where they live. At Nanziang, we saw tents pitched on open goods cars, where the soldiers, ate drank, cooked, washed and attended to all the wants, needs and pleasures of Fuman nature, In some places the odour was overwhelmingly horrid.
'At Quinsan the station was jam-_ med full of cars, locomotives, soldfers, bags of flour, boxes of munitions and all the' things that go with war. It was a battle to get one's train into the station or anywhere near it. We finally gave
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