Paradox comes true in the land of the Gorges. Backwash in the rapids causes eddies to flow upstream at a rate of several knots—jo fact of which the native boatmen, i|dettiy hugging, the banks, are not to" avail. themselves—and ing-up of water in the stream possible to look down, as point higher on a hillside, n the decks of another ship in to the shore. But the!
phenomenon presents itself st Kwelehowfu, just above the point where the Windbox Gorge broadens out into gentler hills scattered with bright green patches of mustard seed, from which oil is produced.
Here pure salt bubbles up from springs in the midst of the fresh' Fiver-water! Salt occurs in other parts of the Gorges, but believed to be the only. place where wells are found in the riverlied. Receding waters have now uncovered a long sandy peninsula, on Which the -steam from the brine-boilers can be. seen rising over the roofs of a. numerous colony of matsheds. Scores of people live and work here during the low-level season, though every one their buildings will have to be dis 8 soon as the river rises. Kwel-itself is perhaps the most tractive of the bigger towns, situated, ike Wushan, Yunyanghsien, and Wanhsien, on the north Denk near an inlet.
Tts wall over-ooking the Yangtze is in an excellent state of preservation, and traces are pointed out of an'older wall which encircled an earlier city on a site a little distance away, The importance which the city held in bygone centuries is shown by the fine temple, built in a recess of a commanding headland near the gorge's mouth, where Emperor Liv Pei of the Han Dynasty, onetime conqueror of Chengtu, came to past hie last dars. Another landmark it White house on the brow of the in which Marshal Wu Pei-fo lived for some time following the failure of his "united China" attempt a few years ago.
Fengtu is famous for the euriou: custom of the "passport to Embassy. Mr, Chen Jui-lin, acting chairman of the board of directors lof the Chinese Bastern Railway, has been mentioned as likely to be} Jappointed the, first Manchoukuo! Ambassador to Tokyo, 'A constitution for the projected Hfotye by De: Chao Lisp chief of tokyo by Dr. Chao Hsin-po, chief of/ the Legistative Yuan of Manchoulruo has been in Japan since July studying. the Japanese "Constitation Jand parliamentary system of gov-lornment.
Tt is not known, however, whether lube Constitution will be drafted in time for adoption on March 1. Lieutenant-General Koiso's predict. ton that two or, more, yours would required to draft the propose constitution, indicates that the monarchical restoration may take place before the adoption of. the Although' Mr, Kyo Matsuki, commissioner of the government Manchoukuo, is now in Europe ying monarchical constitutions, belief is current here that the Manchoukuo Constitution will bear lereat similarity to that of Japan.
Meanwhile, actual plans for the coronation are held strictly secret. The capital, however, is eae with excitement and anti:
Officials of the central and provincial governments are converging there in great numbers, Atiendants fat Mr. Pu Yi's former Imperial Court, in Peking, who had dispersed to. widely scattered places in the are understood to be gathering in Changehun for the corona. tion, which promises to be a most [colourful event.
With the enthronement of Mr. Pu Emperor, five ranks of nobility, from barons to dukes, will also be created, In addition, according to general monarchical traditions, an amnesty for political prisoners' serving life sentences in gaols here, is consider-led as a likely proclamation on March 1.
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