Opium is being cultivated this season in spite of the fact that in some parts the magistrates have proclamations exhorting. fa mers to grow cereals (but not, $0 far as 1 know, forbidding the cultivation of opium). Apparently it is taken to heart by some who grow two rows of opium to one of cereal, so that if it should be that the opium is eventually pro= hibited there will still be the cereal crop to gather. Meanwhile, the export of opium to' other provinces still goes on.
The centre of the city known as the Big (Cross, is now under con struction as a part of the street widening plan and from the progress made up to the present, it will be quite a striking pare of the whole Scheme. I thick I have already mentioned that the drainage system seems to be a very good one carry ing off the water through main streets under ground to the river which runs through the city, As far as ote can see, it looks as if provision is to be made, when the road is completed, for the erec~ tion of some monitment list at the Big Cross and report has it that it will be in the form of a statue of Dr, Sun Wen, I think this is very probable, but whether the statute will be of bronze (as General Chow Hsih-chen's is) E do not know.
Hurricane lamps of a well-known, (and good) German make are for sale on the streets hero and a Chinese friend has recently bought one to take home. When he showed it to us I noticed that the glass had "Chungking" blown into it so [told it to my, friend and he took it back to the "shop where it was changed for a glass with the Trade Mark of the German firm. On the way to his home he found that it 10 had "Changsha" blown into it, indicating that it was made by some firm in China, which is evidently infringing the trade mark of the German firm, unless indeed that firm makes the glasses in China. But Tmuch doubt this as it is of such an inferior qu
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