I had been solemnly assured by a certain foreign curio dealer that he had been offered stuff which had recently been looted from these This, of course, is an old, old which curio dealers dish up for the delectation of their victims, But anyhow I had expressed my complete scepticism, because the Ming Tombs were looted very thoroughly about 300 years ago, when the Manchus first came in, and it is highly unlikely is that they now contain anything worth Jooting.
No visitors hnd been there for several months, nor is that so astonishing seeing that the hills behind are said to be frequented by irregulars and similar unpleasant folk. The old roads that we drove over were still pretty good but the new ones are bad, mere mud roads the surface of which is already breaking In that respect the clock has been put back very successfully. Except fo the Golf Course and to the Race Course, foreigners hardly go outside the city these days. Even the latter which is only three miles outside the city is made more inaccessible, because the direct gate, the Hsienmen, has remained closed ever since the outbreak of the trouble, and the Japanese, for some inscrutable reason, steadily refuse to open it. The foi mer Agricultural College has been converted into a large barracks by the Japanese, and they have started commandeering the cottages of foreigners for billeting purposes.
in one of the issues of the "North-China Daily News" last month a businessman who had visited our fortunate city gave a glowing account of conditions here; he stressed its prosperity, the rapid development. and the popularity of the Japanese army with the local population. The: of us who live here, whose special" job it is to note these things, and can even talk the language a little, have, it is true, failed to note these happy conditions, except in one This businessman is rather to the details of the rapid development of the country, which he says has already been commenced by the Japanese.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.