The new match factory $88 is much in evidence. People along many of the streets are busy at their] doors making the match boxes, thus piece work employment is provided for many men, women and children. This part of the country shows every sign of prosperity whilst reports from the North indicate that famine is threatened there.
The unrest and brigandage which was so prevalent a month ago in the province have quietened down now; but not before many whole villages had been plundered and burnt.
Mr. Yang. the Commissioner of Foreign Affairs here, has been transferred to Tsingkiamgpu in a similar capacity, and the Commissioner from Ningpo has taken up his office her Mr. Stanley K. Hornbeck, author of "Contemporary Politics in the Far East." is now travelling in the Orient gathering material for further writing on recent developments. 5
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