The Archive · 1926

Native Trade Good

Trade of a purely ter is good. fu ths tricts bandits have been trade routes. long the result that put on the Tunghing—-On Po—Yam-chow run are doing a good business, who chief drawback to this trade the difficulty of shipping thi go ovt to foreign ports thus opts ing a market, The merchants ons and all relate that shipping Canton and Shanghai is too expensive and eats up their profits, Nows hus just reached uy that, General Lan, one of General Tang, Poor-yun's okt generals, is active e[ayain in the districts chow. Some anxiety hax been felt but it is mot expected that he will be able to do muck aceing thut he ix poorly equipped as compared with tie Kuomintang troops. However, there are not a great ment troops here now some anxiety has hoon felt, Lau is one of the not siderable number of _anti-"Reds"" which are still to be found ever Where in Kuantung und if possible he will most certainly cause trouble, The Wanhsien Incident The city is all wrought up aver the Wanhsien affair. Of course has been greatly exnamerat~ ed but all that is said is firmly ba-lieved and the hatred of all things English is manifest. On the other hand the British missionaries the district are not molested. When I mentioned this fact namber of the Government yesterday and expressed my surprise he replied that although the Kuomin-hun was no id they should not be friendly with indivi Jdual Englishmen, many of whom re of excellent ehmacter ant feet gentlemen, the writer's belief that tye anti-foreign feeling is subsiding. Since my return here have been over town and to many sh have found nothing bat friendliness everywhere. Ths usual ery once 50 noticeable in thi section of "Down vith imperialism" whenever a fo nes, 219 matter what his nationality might be, passed is now noticendle lasis utter abechee, "Be as "foreign de' heard it. Whether this change due to a better fosiing toward eigners or a matter of policy borately uwviertaken to obtain some We one al the present unable to say

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