Mail service on the Kinhan is to Peking, but south of Cheng-the service: is only carried suchow at present. The Lunghai is open throughout its length, though travelling, conditions for pas. sengers on both railways is un-"speakable, while the service is very' irregular'as far as time table is concerned, Half of General Chin Yun-ao's troops have been disarmed, and the other half are said to have decamped with their arms, and are swelling the ranks of the brigands in the middle and southern part of the Province. It is said that General Chin has gone to his summer residence on Chikungshan, but it is hard to understand this unless he has made his peace with Canton, for Chikung is held by the Ni tionalist troops, i Heavy Taxation Taxes of all kinds are being foreed from the people to swell the funds of Marshal Wu's war chest. One tax this month has been a. whole month's rent from every Person renting out property. Another is a tax of 50 cents a section (chien) upon every house. This a plies to foreigners as well as Chinese of all classes. When the police who came for this were asked if this tax was to be collected only this once or monthly, they said they did not know but it was possible it might be a monthly matter! Hundreds of the people here do not pay that amount for their rent, and it will be a very great hardship on them, Famine conditions prevail many parts of the province, and the distress in a month or will be very great indeed. 'The floods Jast summer and the heavy rainfall since then have so saturated the fields that many are still under water, and much arable land could not be planted with the winter wheat, which is practically the staple' crop of the people of this Province,
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