It is estimated by those who have doen making a study of the situation that it would take ten years, under conditions of normal _prosperity in the province, for Chow-Kiakow to again be in a position to adequately serve as the trade contro for south-eastern Honan, But conditions in the province are "not normal. 'They are rotten, and have been getting worse every' year since the revolution of 1911, with no promise of any improvement in the future. The conclusion, as regarda Chowkiakow, under the circumstances, is obvious, and the gen. eral opinion of those with whom have talked and who ought to know that Chowkiakow, as the metropolis of south-eastern Honan, has Feceived a death blow. It is probable that a greater part of the ruins will never be rebuilt, since, by the time that this could be accomplish-€4, it will be too late to recover the business that has, for generations, been handled by these, now destroyed, business houses. Trade} must, perforce, seek other channels, and one of the most thriving—of Chinese business communities will, 43 far as wholesale business concerned, have been permanently wrecked by a rabble of ignorant, irresponsible ruffians, unchecked by' those who ought to be looking after the security and well being of the People, and who, instead, have no thought beyond the best means of ming their own pockets to repletion as quickly as possible, ON Wednesday night the Door of Hope in Paoshan Road was the scene of an attack by Chinese mobs, who Set fire to n part of the fence of the institution's enclosure and tried to inside to force the Chinese girls in the home to leave. Poreign workers of the institution have now moved inside the Settlement and it is understood that the girl inmates of the institution hava been: exnveyed th a place of; safety,
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