There were the usual complaints about declining trade, caused chiefly by the culting-off of Sinkiang, and by the interference of trade with Inner Mongolia by the Council os Pailing-mino, But actually things would not appear to be so very bad, certainly nothing like as serious as at Kalgan.
In the first place, the trade with Inner Mongolia was never very large, while the Suiyuan Bus Company still brings down cargoes from Hami in Northern Sinkiang by the motor road which runs to the west, north of the Yellow River. Then, too, the opium trade from Kansu and Sinkiang is still very flourishing Inrge numbers of buyers come to Suiyuan, bringing in their train a lot of business, the second place, quite apart from outside trade, Suiyuan is the centre growing district, and fected by political Large deposits of cent are: also 10 be found in the province, though for some reason or other they. have hitherto not been. worked, In view of the present political situation, these deposits are, "however, scarcely a blessing to Suiyuan,' for obvious reasons,
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