The Archive · 1936

Customs Station at Tatung

New Preventive Post to be Check on Smuggling Tientsin, Oct. 3.

One of the latest developments in the anti-smuggling war in North China is the decision to establish a preventive station at Tatung, the northern Shansi junction of the olping-Suiyuan railway.

Though the Peiping-Suiyuan railway has pledged its refusal lwansport contraband, the seiting of a preventive station at Tatung is believed essential to check gtlitg in Shansi, Sulyuaa und nul provinces, as it is explained, most of the illicit goods transported iz of these three provinces fom Changpei in nuthern Tung-hua, deputy director Autl-Sauggling Bureau of the Ministry of Finance, is still in Tien sin, and will remain here for some time to await decision regarding the reported removal of the Bureau from Nanking to Tientsin, Meanwhile, it is stated, Customs receipts for Tientsin and Chinwangtao for this year will probably amount to only $20,000,000, about half of lost year's total, as a result of smuggling—Central News, The cottages at Sinkaisi are about 4,800 feet above sea level, hence the climate is always cool. An easy two days on foot or by chair, and one can reach the 10,600 ft. peal of sacred Ome, with its outranging snow views 2 the Minyakonka and other peaks. Fortunate guests sve the Buddhu's Glory, moonlight rainbow mists, Indescribable plain views, with varying cloud-sea effects—just "unforgettable, they tell us.

Coming down, sume are taken by almost unknown ways to the very foot of the great cliff, whose top they have just visited, With a guide and a Indder they go. up the Kingting Gorge, wading among granite, and Inter quartzite, rocks. Huge chain ferns, nourished by falling cascades, are but a part of the verdure all about. Ju the sunshine one more charming wade (for the water Is cool) can be found in the world, The traveller. returns after lunch to a rough hut by the stream, to dream over the Joys of a day of days,

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