Kuling is facing property depreciation, owing to the uncertainty the future. What are the walists going to do? Are they going to maintain the status quo? Or, are they going to introduce their policy of pushing out the non-Chinese? The uncertainty has led some foreigners to sell out to Chinese, and a number of houses are now for sale, Even Fairy Glen Hotel, and the big Kuling Hospital, are said, by some, to be for sale fair price for them is obtainable. But this may be mere rumour. We hear that the Duff store ix being kept open, and may bbe open all winter. The American School hopes to be able to reopen in September 1929, nearly a year hence, but that depends on how the ituntion is by next spring or Sommer. Meanwhile, the reports of visitors of the past summer, evidences that Kuling wax quiet, comfortable, with little to trouble, but, at the same time, with an undefined fear of what may be coming any day
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