Nanking, Jan. 16, General Chang Chuo, the promin-lent. member of the Central Executive Committee who has, been per. sonal representative of General Chiang Kai-shek in Peking and elsewhere, told pressmen to-day that, although he had at first refused to become Reorganisation Committee, he could no longer decline the post in view fof the urgent requests made to him to take it from various quarters.
General Chang Chun is a, native of Stechuan and one of the few Szechuanese in the Central Government.
He, intimated that retailed mea sures concerning the constitution of this committee will be considered at] the meeting of the Central Executive Committee next Wednesday and he declared that the present attitude the Szechuan generals was such that hope was entertained that the Jeommittee would be able to devise hearures for a thorough reorganise tion of Szechuan affairs with View to ending the hitherto ever-civil: wars in that pro-if anything is really worth whil Since the beginning of Octobei means of transport for heavy mails.
been impossible to procure, the ving commandeered all and other beasts of cit own uses. For a week or more before the 24th retreated from here coolies who had been rounded up for use in the event of retreat were housed in a hi building Kept in idleness till the time earn for their use in helping to carry off the soldiers belongings! And so our mails are still smouldering in the bottom of some best, down at the river, oF growing blue mould in some primitive post-office a day or two from here.
The arrival of the letter mails has been more regular of late, as it comes overland by courier, and the road between here and Chungking is now open, and as safe for travel as it ever is. So we receive Letters in about four. days from Unungking, and anywhere from. sixteen to twenty-two days from Shatighai, depending on the number and frequency of steamers coming up the gorges. At this time ofthe year very few steamers arrive, and mails have to wait in Ichang till they can be taken on by these small "low water" steamers. Tzeliutsing is situated approximately 200 miles to the west of Chungking, and about 'Chengtu, cid Half way between "Chotgking' and
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.