The B.C. has sent out a public denial of the alleged ill-treatment of their employees which was the commencement of most of the uproar, was published in several] Chinese papers. Nevertheless, Wachang, Dee. 18.
Travelling on the Kin-Han railway'
me, never pleasant, has now become positively dangerous. The trains are so crowded that it is often impossible to obtain even standing room inside the carriages. Trains with the roofs of the crowded as the insides, ere are even people riding o3 the cow-catcher in front of the engine. The scramble which takes place for seats under these conditions can be better imagined than des-
Ladies and luggage have fre. quently to be got on or off the trains by getting through the car:
age windows, and this often at places where there is no platform, but a drop of several feet: from the footboard to the ground. A Chinese servant who travelled recently from] Hankow to a station some distance up the line had a tooth knocked out) and one arm badly damaged in getting out of the train.
The safest way for foreigners to travel, is by getting a place on the top of the cargo in a goods-truck, Even for this privilege a second: lass ticket has to be bought. But} it is often impossible, even by bribery] to secure a place anywhere, There are plenty of empty—passenger-carriages standing at various places by the side of the line. But these are reserved for the use of the military, and so other travellers are allowed to make use of them,
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