Sianfu, or Changon, as it ix now called, a! reversion fan_ ancient fame' is not really a city. Te ig reetangul by" 44 miles, the walls exceptionally high and. large diate" back to\ the Tang. dynasty making a very imposing impression. Tnalde the north-east section of city fs a large open space with ca
buildings on them. fall uso "Fond, The reason why this: space not been built on is interesting, this site lay the town of the old Mancha garrison who were com:
ly wiped out, men, women. and Enildren, in the evolution of 1011. Tt ig: said that, though the citizens of Sianfu have bought up. all the lots, they wilt not venture to build On them for fear of the avenging spirits of the vietimas but that they. hope, when the railway "reaches here' that they will be able to, sel the fand to outsiders who will have hothing to fear" from. avenging: spirits. Close by, on the west, are the high walla of the fortees-like Hsin Cheng (New Town), also dating back to grea antiquity, phere: General Vang Hu Chen hak his headquarters. tu the old days, was, T-believe, the palace of the Tartar' General. Gen. Feng Yo. Iislang, daving' "his occupation of Sianfur in 1927, altered it completely, and except. for the headquarters, mie. plain-looking one-storeyed iuildinge of whitewashed. mud, it is coupled by barracks with a' vast
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