The Chinese new year was more widely celebrated than in any previous year since the Revolution. The military leaders decorated their headquarters for the foreign new year, but the people seem to be getting back to the old customs very rapidly.
Shore was even one family whose motto pasted up on the door thank. ed the Emperor for his grace.
The writer having been. to Changsha recently, naturally conditions there and in the south have been contrasted. It is difficult to say in which section the people ar: suffering most, for it is not a ca of whether you are for the North or the South, but simply one of degree of suffering from the hands of the military parties.
Chang Chin-yao has succeeded in doing some things for the poorer people that have made some talk in his favour. He has even torn down the up-to-date gaol at Changsha and is using the materials to build or rebuild a large temple. Some of. the ardent Buddhists will praise him for this, but everywhere there was no good word for him or his soldiers.
The large merchants at Changsha and Siangtan closed the most gloomy year they have had in years, and 12 of the large wholesale drug shops at-Siangtan were reported to
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