Crime is at a surprisingly low ebb, which is due to the good work of Mr, Euyang Chu. Tu addition to introducing an excellent system of crime control, in which the support of the military authorities and the min tuan (citizen forces), Mr. Euyang has brought the traifie control system to a very high state of efficiency. "Cops" are to be seen at. all corners and on motor eyeies in the city outskirts, regulating hundreds of motor ears. and thousands of other. kinds of smaller vehicles. Fines are meted out evenly to all traffic offenders, irrespective of their positions, with the result that high officials who think that they can escape punishment.are mot a little chagrined when they are informed that they have to pay a fine.
Detectives, however, might make themselves less conspicuous for one could tell almost at once who was plain clothes not, for the tinguial revolvers which bulge in their pockets.
Added to these, there are hundreds of bodyguards attending officials, igh and low, who likewise, armed. There fore but thie lo probely recounted for by the fact that many of the men formerly stationed in Canton have now been transferred to other places since the Anti-Northern Expedition came to an end. I learned that it was the intention of the authorities to cut down military youses. to $2,500,000 monthly for the whole province and this, 0 course, will be a blessing to the people, The museum on the Kuan Yin Shan Hill is a fine structure and is fa credit to Mayor Lam and his associates. Situated on the very top of the hill, it is a pretty five storeyed building of Chinese archifecture, painted in red and gold, which may be noticed from all parts! of the city. It is well worth a visit for it contains samples of practical. ly everything which Kuangtung and Kuangsi produce.
The Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall and Monument on the side of the Pei Yun Shan (While Cloud) Mountain are going up apace and it is expected that they will be completed by this time next year. When finfished, they shoald be wonderful pieces of work and worthy of visite.
An Ultra Modern Villa The New Currency Notes issued by the Central Bank of(China have been restored 0 arity, and new coins bearing the imprint of Dr, Sun Yat-sen are widely sed. Ten cent pieces. are Unoblainable but one gets five 20 cent pieces for a $1, Gentral banknote. Each 20 cent: piece is exchangeable at the rate: of 38 coppers. They are. shiny silver. pieces which, unfortunately, are easily Imitated. "With their usual ehrewdness, the merchants are able to tell fat a glance or simply by picking them up whether they are good oF Dad. Seeing how easily one shopkeeper selected bad. coins from a covered with 20 cent pieces, TLetried my hand with 50 of them, Jing: that, it would be quite Of the'49 odd which Tre-'Yarned: after note tha 15. minutes close scrating as" being. good, nine were immediately selected -by the In Tungshan, cne finds an ultra modern village of foreign style. Here, 1 was told, land prices come near to those in the city proper.
Progress in Honam, the island to the south of Canton City, is slow Fund nothing of an exceptional nature was noticed. The ferry service is still of the old junk type though. there are plenty of modern craft, such as steam launches and motor oats, available. For a copper, oF even a few cash, one can travel from one side of the Chu-kiang (Pearl River) to the other and, to engage a special ferry, one pays. but ten coppers to a perspiring Teng-ka woman in tattered clothing and a huge hat, whose husband lies basking under 'a sun cover of, Boards, whilst ber children ream about the junk with lumps of wood tied to their bodies to serve as life savers in the event of their fallimg overboard.
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