'There is unlimited banditry, un-Himited opium growing, mich poverty but no famine advertised as such in JJehol. Moving westward, Kalgan is almost completely hemmed in by' banditry on the one hand, poor traffic with Urga owing to both banditry and Red restrictions on the Jother and grotesquely bad communications with Peking and Tientsin, thanks to shortage of rolling stock and feverish transport. taxa tion. Yet there is no famine worth the Igan area, men, would be immediately relieved Better railway management anid lightening of the absurd taxes, but no destination. If the bandits were kept within reasonable control, they. say, and the 12
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