Chengtu, July 19.
The attack on Chungking has not materialized although troops are still being concentrated in an area about three days march from that port. The general sentiment seems to anticipate a fight but rumours to this effect have been heard for such long time now that one inclined to suspect that no one eager to start it, The two Huss, General Liv Hsiang in Chungking and General Liu Wen-hui at Chengtu, control the Great East road between these two cities and all the south part of the province, The other group of generals seems to have made all the necessary preparations and be waiting for something to happen, They have not indicated their intention to join up with Yang Ser in his attack on Chungking but in ease such an arrangement wer reached they would be in a position to act quickly, Meanwhile Yang Sen appears to have withdrawn from Fuchow which he occupied after defeating his disgruntled generals and to have te. treated towards Wanhsin. An army made up of Yunnan and Kueichow troops is said to be threatening: Fuchow. A few days ago a local paper featured an article abusing the military people of these two provinces and saying that whether they were successful or were defeated the people of Szechuan would have to pay for any invasion of their province by the armies of Yunnan or Kueichow.—Pauter, Avnoros of the demise of the "Nagasaki Press" recently noted in this column, the "Japan Chronicle" writes: So passes the oldest sur viving foreign newspaper in Japan. It began in 1876 ax "The Rising and Nagasaki Express." and the name way changed in 1888 The Nagasaki Press." Nagasaki before the Russo-apanese war used to be a flourishing port, and there seems to be no reason why it should hot again become w large commercial centre, with its populous and fertile hinterland. The fact remains that it has not done so. Whoa the Nippon Yusen Kaisha started ils express service from Nagasaki to Shanghai it was expected to give a Jittle fillip to Nagasaki if only in transit business; but it was. soon found necessary to bring the ¢xpress ships along to Kobe as well. what in a Backwater, much ax it had to re commend it in the way of natural Ringer & Ca, kept up the "Nagasaki Provs," apparent: ly out of pure public spirit, as there cewotd any money in it. Mr nm Was, we bo= lieve, the ast foreign Editor, was latterly taken over by Japanese HOTEL BERKELEY,
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