Motorized or Man-powered Opium Bootlegger Kills Five Vehicles: No Horse-drawn In Chungking Svea 20 THE hn, ALD
Frost Our Own Comzronoaer About thirteen years ago, a foreigner who had lived a good many years in Kweichow gave an interview to one of the Hongkong journals during which he stated that as far as he knew not a single. wheeled-vehicle was to be found throughout the whole province, Conditions are vey different today, for there are many motor cars, motor trucks, motor buses, rickshaws and, near Kweiyang at any rate, ox carts (mostly for hauling stone), One vehicle not to be found 4s a horse cart or carriage; the reason that when the motor roads were built, motors were in general use. About a year ago two horse carriages in-the-making were to be seen just outside the West Gate but no doubt the maker came to the conclusion that shay could not compete with the quicker motors.
When the Generalissinio was here last year, he was much interested in the many tribes in the province and he gave orders that special schools for them should be started. I do not know as to other parts of Kwel-chow, but 50 li (say seventeen miles) due south of the capital there fs 0 normal school for young men of the tribes; I am not able to say whether is\ well I have not seen it In addition, there said to be two or three (at least) smaller (primary) schools in diferent villages near by. Well conducted and with due consideration for hitherto (and, I fear, even now). despised tribes, much good should result in days to come.
One barbarous custom still exists cities not far from Kwelyang:—the bodies of those executed (outside the cities) are left exposed by the rond-side until relatives or friends bury them; failing such, they are lett fo de eaten by jackals or other: wild animals; more than once lately my nights have been disturbed by- the snarling and fighting of these animals. It Is barbarous enough that executions are public, for even little children rush to see the sad sights but without any pity for the primi course, A practice in these parts for the spectators to clap their hands 'a5 soon og the man is shot (the most common mode of execution now) and falls, What is the reason, I wonder, Perhaps some superstition' that. the spirit of the dead man might haunt them otherwise; but one explanation given to me was to indicate to the dead mao that they could not help him as their hands were engaged otherwise, I rather incline to the first idea, namely, superstition.
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