The forecoming may be taken as Ja_very fair example of travelling by railway in the interior a present time in China, periences on the Pukow-Hsuchowfu Jine during the last month were no Detter and we fail to see how the situation can improve until new rolling stock is available. The ists are without doubt do-service of but only in a few instances such as between Hauchowfu-Chengchow and Poking: have they any coaches and locomotives really fit to use and it saya worlds for the Chinese engineers and firemen that they can keep any time at all with the hopeless material given them, Our train left at 6.80 and the Journey as far as Techow was un eventful. At Pingyuan found a lot Chinese troops and at several mns_on the line were Passenger traffic was was full, We particularly observed a large quanti ty of rice being unloaded by the military at Yenching.
The Army of Occupation Techow station platform and in fact the whole town we found overrun by soldiery and it appeared that our arrival coincided with the relief of the fourth army by the twelfth, and as the Intter were reputed to be Hunanese soldiers the townspeople were very nervous as to tht behaviour. We met with no unpleasantness at all, in fact the attention tous. They quiet and well-behaved, but of very poor physique -and' badly clothed. Many had'. no boots and to a keen observer on the milit. ary situation in China who has been Mus. Feng Vu-hsiang, (formerly Miss Li Te-chuan), according to telegrams from Kaifeng to the "Eastern Times." has recommended to the Provincial Government that 'a Women's Industrial Training Do-partment should be provided for the education of girls and housewives in home economies and other rudimentary essentials. The government has appointed Miss Ting Han-an to be the chairman of this department.
Tue Propaganda Department of the Kuomintang says that radio messages sent from Nanking have been received in various provinces jin the interior but not in Shanghai. The diMeulty is thought to be due to the Purple Mountain, which, said, forms a barrier which prevents the wireless waves from reath. ing their destination. Stops "ate being taken to remedy the mat-for. How? By cutting dot Mountain?
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