The price of food has been much Gisewssed_and even the possibility of obtaining certain foods hag been questioned: my experiences "go. show that good food, including excellent fresh milk is readily obtainable at reasonable prices. Potatoes and fresh vegetables, however, are chiefly brought ' from Shanghai or other. river ports and cost about double the Shanghai prices. Milk is 20 cents per large bottle; fillet of beef costs 24 cents 'a th; eggs four cents each; and given up cash sweeps owing to alleged practices by Chinere assistants: the Hankow (foreign) Race Course have had one day's yneing, open to Chinese, which was well attended and did 'a fair turn over in the pari-mutuel and cash sweeps: with thousands of Chinese betting on the same course ~with a handful of fo ers. This must be a fair teat of mutual goodwill, east s0 far as conditions "on surface" go.
Tax on Account Books Among life's little worries, the varied Stamp Taxes attempted the local government, have alway to be reckoned with. " One of is a stamp on all books of account (a cussions and unexpected throw. ack to the Code Napoleon) whic! government officials attempt enforce by visiting offices and calling for inspection of boots Needless to remark this strenuously resisted by the ers concerned.
Race meetings, both foreign and Chinese, are graced by
officials who inspect all the reaunce of young Cantoncee returns for enforcement the Stamp Tax, this being paid by th: Race Club out of commissions deducted.
To summarize conditions on the surface one may say that the life! of the port carries on in.an appar-_ ently normal manner: the Hankow Race Club is as attractive-as ever with its 18 hole and nine hole golf, courses, its lawns and terraces: and other attractions, including obliging, naval orchestras for dance Tt may be a refer (> cert light exaggeration to holes of the golf course as "the Deer Park, but the green open spaces, dotted th little spin ni and surrounded by great! willow trees do not fall far short such a description.
Tu such sur-_ roundings with ladies and children well in evidence, it is indeed hard to believe there' is anything amiss swith Hankow.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.