We wore hoping that the advent of motor traffic would allow our Jetters to got here quicker, but since all letters have been sent vin Canton, and there has been motor trafic to within 80 li of Kanshien, mail matter is even slower than in the ood old. days of the. cool Imagine papers addressed in Chinese: taking' twelve days. to' reach here "from. Hongkong, wh yarely were they more that time in former have been on the way hai since December 4, while yesterday there were received book par: els that had been out just over months.
The streets of Kanshien are still a very bad state, A few already have been widened and are practically ready for the cars, but others dare still in a. state of chaos, while some have not yet been torn down. This street. widening has been. execdingly hard on many, who have ost their all, and for whom there is. no redress, while other shops have just been left a few feet, plus the verandah above. the foot path. LIF the bandits to the ast of this fin trict. could be cleaned up trade would revive immediately.
London, Feb. 15, understood that questions concerning Malayan Chinese and their relation with China willie discussed between it Cecil Cle- stati ment, Governor of the Straits Settlements, and Sir Alexander Cadogan, new. British Minister to China.
Sir Cecil Clementi, who is on Iway to England on leave, left Singapore for Penang to-day by air order to meet the new envoy, who is fen route to China to take' up his post.—Reuter.
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