Trade, however, is easier to dis: turb than to restore.—Especially is this the ease when dealing with tively ignorant people like gels. The prosperity ut this Longe centre of commercial setivity pendent on the goodwill of the suring Mongol tribes, There was talk of Japanese troops bein hilleted on a P res This complication, howe: avoided. And yet, for sev months there has been stagnant One large carpenter's shop, for example, which ordinarily sells 10 carts in the year, finds its sale this year down to twenty. There is no. direct interference with local affairs: on the part of the strangers. But the Mongols are timid. They have not yet recovered from their panic. Perhaps there is this slicht justification for their fears that there of excellent quality, has attracted a great rush of settlers to the neighbourhood, which is not on the direct road to Taonanfu. If the Proposed railway from Pamiencheng, vid Chenchiatun to Taonanfu, is set foot, the district will increase still further in importance, both from the commercial and the political standpoint, No wonder there is a rumour that two new provinces are possibly to be formed in Inner Mongoli the capital of one being Chenchiatun.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.