unchang goes steadily on with its pulling down of the city wall, road building, street widening, drains, parks, new civie buildings, ete., and has, I hear, one oF two non-Chinese employed. The for-he P, O. has been replaced evently he over the ners in the Customs are ely ead Chin, es let, emh ole sam] sack new ace an fe ping Ita of the whasserrow sage all those objects of superstition. the motor ear stage, and, in the This direct overthrow of idols initial period we must' expect woul the Sie of many, alive wheen made for) Kiukiang joes along and seems is decreed increasing in wealth and popula that idols are of two kinds—upright tion, if one may judge from the and depraved. 'The latter are. to! have no meres'. but the better class increasing crowds coming and going on steamers, train, ete. The Dull collected and confined ina fox: temples. Also, those temples] Con it is said, have been trying to that have an historic interest are] PUchase property on the former British Concession, as their pro-tin
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