Hankow, Jan. 30, The number of accidents due the reckless driving of chauffeurs in charge of military cars and lor= ries grows almost daily. On Monday night one of these cars. rushing the Bund near the Deutsch tis che Bank knocked down a coolie carrying sugar from one of the wharves to a godown, The 's skull was smashed open and his death must have been instant-ancons. The driver, as is usual in these, cases, did not' slow down, but the police had noted his number and his arrest was effected a little later in the day. The police report that the car was being driven on the wrong side of the toad at the time of the accident.
There have been no developments, in the ease of the boy who wat killed by a car driven by Lieut. Comdr. MeBride. The body has been placed in a coffin. which has been left on a vacant piece of ground opposite the Tungjen Hos+ pital.
This holiday is being generally observed by all classes with very, much the same ceremony as the old-style China New Year. The number of crackers fired was quite Jas large as usual, and the feast tax will probably yield a good deal during the next three days.
But everywhere one finds a sense jof despondency owing to the incurs which abound as to a fresh move on the part of the Kuomin" chun in Honan and of fighting in Szechuan, Trains are said to be running to Yenching, but if 80 the accommodation is reserved for soldiers.
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