The Pao Chin Kung Ssu, which is the successor of the Peking Syndicate in the Pingting anthracite] region, is being seriously handicapped by the shortage of freight wagons on the Kin-Han Railway. 'The cara are, of course, being used by the military, 'The' Pao Chin Company has thousands of tons of coal piled up at its mines, and in the meantime markets at the coast fare complaining of a fuel shortage.
We have had perfect harvest weather for several weeks, and the farmers have been taking full advantage of it to gather one of the heaviest autumn crops Shansi has seen in many a long day. During the recent harvest moon many wrmers were at work for most of] the night cutting, hauling and threshing their grain,
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