Gunfire is heard in the village es every ight, Even in day-Hime bold highway robbery takes place, Last week three merchants arrived at Chenchuang by train. They hired a local cart to drive six and spend the night in the City of Huaiking. Just as they crossed the Chin River about 20 bandits suddenly appeared fully armed, they stopped the cart, took silver $300, and valuable clothing and made off. This is the third daylight robbery.
in sight of the city wall only cently, Then even within the city itself the local Chinese Oil Ca. was bed and the culprits got away several hundred della Merchants are feeling the connected with the Japanese boy cot.
Iti" so strict that practical-a promise justice in that it is suid present els are allowed to he sold, but no new goods brought in; however, considerable injustice emerges through the putting of the boycott into effect, and business is restrict The Force of Tradition in interesting to see how old custom is generally much stronger than rational thinking, Plain force ig the only method that seems effec-ive in clearing out. the temples. Dismissing the priests and smash. ing up the idols and images. and putting them on the dump heap. This method of force has been used in Huaiking city and the temples: fare now cleared. But the movoiment does not go beyond the city suburbs. The villages are unchang-" cil. Meantime much has been done to exhort the villagers to do as they have done in the city but nothing happens. Foot-binding seems only abolished when punishment or force is shown. Again, the vile lagers are ready to: challenge anything that would interfere with their customs of the Chinese New Year and Chinese Calendar. The home and village, deep-rooted cus mins of sowing and reaping, mar-lages and funerals, borrowing and collecting are #0 regulated by the Chinese old Calendar that the people say "We may be forced outwardly to Keep the new but we must certainly continue to live by the old, or we perish." the boycotting of Japanese goods and it is only heard of in the local papers. Friendly. official relations have never been broken and at the! recent celebration of the coronation of the Emperor of Japan at the local Japanese Consulate the all suitable congratu were read, Chengtu now has two foreigners con the sta? of the Post Office, the Commissioner and an accountant Reuter.
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