It is providential that the harvests are so good, for war involves suffering enough to the poor people without famine, ov even scarcity, in ad~ As export is impossible on ge scale under present con= foodstuffs ought to be cheap the south bank, the splendid: nine 4%! well as abundant locally. span iron bridge' over the Huai] The summer is one of the having been destroyed to prevent the] pleasantest of our experience in And the Peking Ministry of Communications then sent down another man to replace Liv. On arrival here, the new manager, who is native of Hupeh, asked Liu to quit fand to Fender him an account of all the transactions, but Liu refused to sive up his job.
More amusing is the fact that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Nanking has appointed Mr. Lo Chuk-sun, of Macao, to be the local manager, and Mr, Lo now is. in Hongkong, waiting to assume office.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.