Rivers Join and Mud Sweeps In: New Commission to be Put to Work By "Ftooo Tne"
Tientsin, March 16.
The temporary or palliative through the village of Peitsang, the road became very bad, but forthe sanction of the Nationalist Government.
Those in the know were all along of the opinion that nothing would be done to the Haiho in the way of improvement unless the sanction of the Nationalist Government was obtained. The carrying out of the scheme will be purely a Chinese or Nationalist Government concern.
The local Chinese banks are subscribing the larger part of th Toan, ris: $3,000,000 and the For-ign' Banks $1,000,000, instead of half and half as was at first arranged. This loan will be secured fon the Custom's surtax, and the Bonds wilt be issued by the Nationalist Government bearing interest the existing government can keep going, The student or scholar class, now hardly audible, incline to the opinion that war is imminent, if not' unavoidable. The—working dass are anxious, for fear of a Stoppage of wages. The farmers neither know nor care what hi pens, ce long as it does not come near their rice fields or mulberry groves.
Chinese women are aking mor terest in public affairs, especially those whg have come through the schools in recent years. They are inclined to like or dislike prominent men rather than to dilate on political philosophy. Even Chinese Children, who once reviled the for= ose. But explain in logical fashion scheme for the improvement of the tunately it was dry and with the at the rate of 9.6 per cent. per Sihy" the, Keb Mara shoutd be Haiho which has caused so many exception of numerous bumps annum on the old custom's tariff of Ymlueky and the Nisahin Mara heated discussions and controversy through the road Having caved in, five per cent., and the Customs Iueky, and it will be doing a service ies is mow about to be put into the village of Hunhokao was reach-have been authorized by the Na-om bewildered community. Unlike practical operation. A considerabi ed, where we left the motor car tionalist Government to collect the the rose, a ship by any other name—amount of hard work and diplom: and after walking for about twenty interest on the Bonds and deposit put somebody else can supply an ap= tie tactics had to be resorted to minutes we arrived at the spot the money in the Bank, Three propriate ending to that tag. before a satisfactory solution could where the Yungtingho meets with treasurers have been appointed, one the Peiyungho, There was a big will look after foreign interests, be arrived at. It' was originally village on the right bank of the tone Chinese interests, and the third intended that this improvement Yungtinho delta and on the left of treasurer will be a member of the scheme should be carried out by the
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