Yang Sen's Unpopularity with Nationalists: He Leaves Nothing for Others: An Inquiry Commission all Kidnapped A local shipping official remarked on Tuesday in describing conditions mn the Upper Yangtze that it was 2 pity Messrs. Gilbert and Sullivan were not alive and able to provide the world with a comic operetta, centring round certain aspects of navigation on the Yangtze.
He went on to add that it was regarded a good omen, however, that the "Finnish" flag had now appeared on a Chinese-owned steamer, the need having arisen recently to find new pennants to replace several others whose authorities had been frowning upon the masquerade, Conditions had vastly improved in recent weeks, it was pointed out, in spite of the fact that convoys were still the fashion, In the Mid-lo River, between Hankow—and Tehang, a convoy left every Tuesday. A certain amount of difficulty was being added to the situation through lack' of navigation aids in this section of the river.
Yang Sen's Exhaustive Squeeze Between Ichang and Chungking, the situation was somewhat more hazardous. Yang Sen, being established midway, at Wanhsien, was Administration", for "pidgin cargo"; the "Arms and Ammunition' Search Party"; the "Sugar and Metal Search Party'; the "Opium Search Party", the "Salt Searchers"; and the "Cigarette Searchers", A tax of $60 on each case of cigarettes smuggled in was the rule and a search party devoted to spying out kerosene and lubricating oil collect ed 40 Mex. cents a unit for this con-
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