It may be emphasized that the writer of the following is anything but ignorant of or unfriendly to China. Incidentally we believe he speaks Chinese fluently and ardently desires her return to pristine grandeur.
This is the third time I have visited Nanking. It is horrid, untidy city. I took a walk along the Bund. What a Bund! Under good municipal administration, it could be made into a wide, imposing frontage facing the river. Instead, it is a narrow, nondescript thoroughfare, dirty and unkempt. There was a woman washing clothes on the sidewalk, and a little further a group of seven works was rowdily gathered. On the Bund!
Decay and sacrilegious conversion of the surrounding country into untidy dumping grounds have destroyed for ever the ancient grandeur of the Ming Tombs. The
stone monuments is no more. Vege-avenue running along the giant tables are now reared against their bases. An unsightly new road diverts from the ancient highway leading to the mausolenin. The eye meets with affront at every turn.
They have an' extraordinary method of road repairing here. The whole road is messed up for a distance of about fifty feet instead of one side at a time, and passing vehicles help to impress the new foundation. Ricsha coolies baw] for fares with sudden, starting cries. I turned: on three occasions to sce whether a ruffianly attack had caused distress.
The whole picture is calculated to make one despair of any effort directed to the welfare of the Chinese. What a shiftless people! They don't help themselves.
I'shall certainly be glad to get back to Shanghai.
Mr ©, P. Yin, managing direc-for of the local railways, left for Nanking yesterday to confer with Gen. Chi Shieh-yuan, Tuchun ox Kiangsu.
THe vernacular press learns that Admiral Tu Shih-kuei, Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese Fleet, has sent his chief-of-staff, Admiral Wu Kuang-tsung, to Shanghai to coter with the "independent"? Commander-in-Chief, Admiral Lin Kien-chang, with a view to winning over the support of the Shanghai section for the Peking government. Admiral Wu has telegraphed reporting that ne has come to terms with Admiral Lin whereby the latter will continue to have command of the local Navy and) none of the local gunboats will be moved without Lin's permission. Admiral 'Lu will have to pay Lin two months' salary for this. service.
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