So far the summer has been vers dry and hot, there is a great amount of sickness around, The river is low, and the launches, which connect} us With the outside world have not! been able to come so far up stream, hhenee the merchants find it very difficult to obtain woods from the! coast, in anything like business time, The military situation is one of wait and see. Units have been sent in the direction of the Hunan border to insure that defeated troop wi not make raids in Kianm: hear that there has been some fighting further north and towanl The progress which Radio has made in the Three Eastern Provinces is remarkable. It is greater than in any other part of China. Within 18 months seven permanent stations have been established in Manchuria for commercial purposes and_are being operated with particularly good results, while several temporary' stations for military use are in existence, but perhaps most interesting of all are proposed _brondcasting stations planned for Mukden and Harbin.
The Principal Stations Before speaking or writing of the latter it may be as well to mention' that the permanent stations are situated at fukden, Harbin, Changchun, Tsitsihar, (tube stations), Newchwang Hulutao (coast state fons), and Fuching, not far from Har ju, and the tempora at Manehi (Kirin province), village on the border close to Viadinew stations will year at Huling and Tehal.
Tt ig also interesting to note that Mukden, in addition to picking up messages from Europe and Am-rica, direct conimunication with such distant places as Yunnanfu, Urumehi and Kashgar, though! the two last namoa stations have not been heard from for several days, presumably due to local trouble. Worthy of mention also is the fact! that the radio stations in Manchuria have during the past few months! been accept private messages at the ordinary telegraph rates, and these have invariably been delivered Cannot vouch for het the repneted|2eee the h of se more quickly than messages land lines, Outside of sent}
gatherings on the Ruangtung bord- Manchuria this only applies to such er area No troops have] stations Peking, Tientsin ud Passed through here for that place. Shanghai.
or avy some pulees seemed, a quiet 5 usual] Lectures and Concerts Broadcast as usual they are very peaceful.' una reports of any' kind as to their evil doings, We! here seem to he favoured with, troops who mind their own bus ness for which we are thankful, and! all the military officers are gentle-! men in the best use of that word. Large numbers of them are intima-rely known to the writer.
Harvest reports are good hut the tice remains dear. and the poor have, difficulty in providing for their Turning to the broadcasting)
heme, it is intended to broadcast, in Chinese of course, not only news, market prices, and speeches or lectures, but concerts and theatricals Manchuria and in centres at present reached by long distance telephone, such as and) Peking.
Under the regulations which have been drawn up the Government will control and operate the stations in Manchuria, will collect the taxes
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