All this will Felp one to realize the difficulties of travel between caster terminus of the Cheng-T: Reilway, at Shihchichuang, and Peking.' Conditions on the trains between those two points simply beings open freight trucks, like sardines in atin, Even the better cars are unheated, save by the recking: warmth of human bodies. Travellers Lave described to me the four days and nights spent under sue' condi-ins in trying to make a journey that should require but six hours. Only people in the very best physical condition should undertake this journey at present, and even for such persons the maximum danger and discomfort must. be exe Reports are coming in of the outbreak of a fever in northern Shansi outside the lower arm. of the Great Wall, Whether this is typhus or typhoid Tam unable to report at present, ax qualified medical men have yet to investigate and report on the situation, We are told that there was a great slaughter of -Kuominchun soldiers Joy the Shansi troops in that region last summer, and that hundreds of the corpses yet remain unburi Tf that be true it may help to plain the outbreak of this epides Great changes have been _may ly in the oticers of the Shansi Perhaps the most striking has to do with the downfall of a itary idol, General Change ig late Defence Commissioner fof southern Shansi, This man who disciplined his army wi ro iron a hand while at Shikehine chiang two years ago. Two brigade jeommanders were executed by his orders at that time, This set forces in motion that have resulted recent ly in General Chang's handing This resignation and votiving private life, Movements of troops to the weste fern and southwestern orders of the province continue. This is in ipation, doubtless, of attacks by Kuominchun from those quart On this plain the city of Fenchow i being strengly fortified, ft] much to the uneasiness of the local eeple. Fenchow lies at the caste gateway of important passes leudin over the mountains to the Yellow River.
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