Business is dead, The Asiatic Petroleum Company's Chinese agent is in gaol, and the hong closed, The dard Oil compradore is " still business, but one of his star is also in gaol on a trumped up charge. The Standard Oil is shipping kerosene to Suiyuan by comet caravan, finding it cheaper than ug by rail, Many of the surtaxes are thus avoided the express, Suisuan is 13 hours west of Kalgua, The Japanese military observe and his staff are still " established here, The Ankuochun regime a intensely unpopular in Chahar, due to their heavy taxes, If the' Kuomin chun do return from the wes they will be welcomed with open sums by the populace. A movermen: from the west along the railroad against the Fengtien regime here is expected to be synchronized with the advance of the Nationalists slong the Tsin-Pu and' Kin-Han thus developing a pincer movement against Peking. The Defence Commissioner at' Suiyuan, while nominally a Shansi oticer, heat and soul a Feng man. In the entire Chaba District there axe less than 15,000. Ant chun troops, and these' are rabble, not fit for the Honan front. The ominehun can take che Kin-Sui railway ay far ay Nankow any time they want to wall in, without even Peal fight.
Mongol Pro-Kuominchun Mongol cavalry are active on the plateau just above us, having exptured Linhsi, Wutan retreating to Jehol or Dolonor when Kuominchun marching orders from the west are gi Two years ago a gathering of two dozen English-speaking for. eigners here at Kalgan was easy to arrange. To-day the foreigners have vanished and business is dead.
Railway service is very irregular and slow, Trains between here and Peking always have to stop at least once en route for engine repairs, and as they puff and grind along the road they look like clouds, steam escaping from every joint. We foreigners who are here came back against consular advice for inspection and consultation wi Cninese, and only hope that railway' will stay open until we are ready to return to Peking.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.