With a Japanese admiral and three wunboais In port last week it Is not prising that rumours. concerning "smuggled goods" should be rit Many merchants were solemnly declaring that hundreds of cases had been landed and a spirit of gloom and apprehension took hold of those who have been trying to establish a trade! in Chinese-made products. They talk as If bankruptcy were just round the corner, "but It is doubtful if the Chungking market will be seriously affected for a long time to come.
'The Friends' High School, under the able leadership of Mr. Yang Fang-in held Ils annual sports meeting to-day, to which approximately one third" of the foreign community turned out. Mr. Yang, who received training In' Bngland with the Friends has developed a school which serves as a model for the whole province and occupies an enviable! position in scholarship, athletics and Mf, A. 'T, Cateneross, the young Canadian engineer on the Generalissimo's technical staff, bids fair to becoming the most travelled man in Szechuen. Having checked mest, the road surveys from Kweiyang, Ta~ chien lu and Shensi he has now been Sent to the Hunan-Szechuen Road which is being rushed to completion. He reports that the new road will run within 40 11 of the Golden Buddha Mountain, bringing it within @ day's journey of Chungking. It is probable that In the future a cool and high summer resort will be avallable Silver and subsidiary coin shipments continue to arrive in guarded Briish ships. Tt is estimated that fever a $1,000,000 of small coins are here ready for distribution, No one seems to know just why the silver shipments continue, Dr, and Mes, Cecil M. Hoffman of the Canadian Mission Hospital are rejoicing in the birth of a baby girt on dune 4.
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