I have recently done the double journey between Shanghai and the Huai river district and feel led to pen a few lines on the subject.
Travelling by night trains second class to and from Nanking, I noticed an increase of passengers on, say, two years ago. Another noticeable thing was that the passengers from Shanghai mostly set-tied down to sleep and consequently did very little smoking, while on the down trip we got such 3 censing of the weed es hardly to have got rid of it yet. The ''up" car not being heated may have had to do with it, but probably not all. I heard a few make remarks on the lack of beat, for the night was frosty. The water arrangements in the lavatories leave much to be desired.
At Chinkiang we were joined by two of Chang Hsun's junior officers, one of whom joining some others in the seat across the passage told them how he had lost over $400 in one night by gambling. As this would represent more than @ year's salary, we could not help wondering how he would mi expenses. men's wages or ask merchants for donations
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