Chungking Oct. 2.
After a month of warm dry weather which played havoc with the autumn supply of vegetables and greatly embarrassed those schools Which depend on wells or springs for their water supply, the "Fifteenth of the Eighth month" festival brought break and the usual autumn drizzle seems to have set in.
The South Bank of the river seems to be billeted with an unusually large number of Central Government troops fat present, They are well disciplined und generally make a favourable impression by their orderly drill and organized games.
The head of the Opium Suppression Bureau has come out with a state rent on the present situation. There will bea further effort to compel opium addicts to register and severe penalties are provided for those who Stil refuse. The government oplurr shops, which were originally intend-fed to meet the legitimate temporary tpeeds of addicts pending the govern-iment's plans for opium-curing clinics, have turned into nothing more than high-class opium dens which are too expensive for the coolie class who are the chief users of the drug. The result ig that there is a rising buslness in bootleg opium. In the meantime, the Generalissimo's headquarters strictly prohibited the sale of any Kind of opium-curing pills as these usually contain opium, Temporary Money Shortage Because the Mid-Autumn Festival came on the end of the month the combination of two financial settle ment days caused a great shortage of ready cash in the money market As a result those needing cash were. bidding as high as ten dollars per thousand interest for the following half month, 'A. long-distance telephone system from Chungking is making great strides. The service is quick and lear and the rates are moderate. Kiating and Chakiang are the two most Tecent centres to be connected 'The new Nanyu Middle School, a beaneh of the Nankai University' of Tientsin, formally was opened this week before a crowd of 1,000 gues's Fepresenting all walks of life. The Commissioner of Education from Chengtu attended and Mr. Chang Poling flew up for the ceremony.
'Two fires started this week in a1 area of the city where there ar' plenty of mat sheds. What would have' been two serious conflagrations were promptly checked by the new fire-fighting apparatus recently acquired by the Municipal Government, The Ming Peng, large express. steamship of the Ming Sung Industrial Ca,, was in port over the weekend after her maiden voyage from Shanghai. Over 10.000 people, including many of the foreign community, were served with tea after inspecting the ship.
'A garden tea was given in the Canadian Mission Hospital Compound to welcome Dr. and Mrs. W. J. Sheridan back from furlough. "Dr. Sheridan has been appointed super-Intendent of the Tzeliutsing Hospital. Among the week-end visitors are a number of Canadian missionaries returning from furlough: the Rev. A.
Hoffman of Lughow, Dr. and Mrs. Ashley Lindsay, Dr. and Mrs. L. G. Kilborn of the Union University in. Chengtu, Dr. and Mrs. Gordon Camp bell and Dr. Harley Jenner who, as newcomers, will attend the language school In Chengtu. Miss Ann Wells has rejoined the staff of the WEES the Methodist "Episcopal Bision Mr. and Sfrs. Robert Ballantyne of the AP.C. have returned from leave in England,
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