There has been a grent deal of the wells and consider able dysentery, a good many sec-many deaths. from these two diseases, Our mail has been held up for nearly two weeks from down river, we suppose at Hankow, or perhaps on the Upper Yangtze' as we hear steamboats are being _com= mandeered by General Yang Sen to carry troops to Ichang from Wanhsien and rather than work for nothing and be at big expense they simply stay at Tehang or Chung king and wait for quieter days.
There seems to be a distinct feeling against Bolshevistic principles, even as practised by the South. There seems to be a slight tendency toward the North and a strong one toward Independence. Some are quite free to say that Yang Sen overstepped the mark in the Wanhsien incident, Looking at it from the Chinese standpoint one is surprised at the small amount of Brit ish condemnation, All classes of people are most friendly, One rarely or ever hears an unkind or anti-foreign remark from the small boy on the street. All classes talk freely of the ident" a most look upon it so very common here everywhere for the last 10 years, ing at full speed and business rood. Rice is $1.90 a bushel of 40 Ib, and the dollar at 6,800 cash.
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