'AVD on the Yangtze, mighty throbbing artery of teeming Central China, is always an adventure, more so when sidelights on smouldering civil strife add a spice of risk, while fog, hallows and rapids bring a touch of the unexpected into voyagers' plans, The vastness of the hinterland many problems—militarist, Communist, and commereial—was impressed on the writer during a recent journey to Chungking, in the course of which he spent more than 40 hours aground on sandbanks, efforts to tow off the stranded ship' being made by WINS. Peterel.
Quandaries of foreign business in Hankow and an unex-Brthe first stage of the 2,900 miles round trip.
ted sign of progress in distant Shasi were impressions noted
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