Canton (despatched from Hongkong), May 16.
"Unless political conditions in It has snowed all day, is snowing flags on which are written "Remem-canton City take a better, turn, Inow, and seems settling' down for the ame," "Our Country's: [many big shops in the city will have close down at the end of the jeeld' night of snow. The tem-disgrace," ete. perature registers 30 Fahr. During One of the four victims who ws year," said a prominent Chinese on board merchant whose name is well known the past few days the weather has badly burnt in the fire entertained us to both snow and the Hsinshutung and taken to in foreign as well as Chinese husiness circles in South China, He hail and frequently both have tried Fhospital has succumbed to his into fall at the same time. We look in vain for those sweet, beautiful, ures, making four deaths. Several fed gut that his large depart ment store in Canton used to fell men sre in prison in connexion wit sunny April days. Tachienlu 20 affairs, ha ing. been caught /Fowds to. the v more than '$7,000 daily in ordinary _cir~ rich in spring flowers has not yet shown us one, The "Zhi-da" the with oot in The expe i cumstances, but nowadays its daily sale in retail does not amount to local Tibetan "deity, is. still apfirst was dealt with and extinguish-parently dissatisfied with all the ed seems to have made a good im-$1,000, a figure that deco mot cover he has been offered and all pression upon the Chinese, for the overhead expenses. One of the ithe music he has heard and all the vessel has just sailed ay for!atgest department stores in Canton jErayers that have been uttered.
Chungking with " full complement had to be taken over by its eredi-'What will appease him and change of passengers and cargo. tors lately. It was not put into hhis attitude towards th city no There seems to be general sati Niquidation because of the peculiar Jone seems to know. faction that General Wan Ju-chin circumstances under which many Chinese firms have to labour these We have cause to remember the has left Ichang and there is feel-advent of the Third Army in ing of peacefulness that not days.
jehienlu:" their innocent destruc-been present for a month or: The yam dycing industry at Yam-ion of a mountain cairn has meant, two past—Reuter's Pacific Service. and other towns west of Canton js0 the lamas think, an exceedingly City, along the—Canton-Samsini cold and intorably long winter, April Railway, paralysed for nearly a and no spring and no flowers ai year by the heavy taxation exweted
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