You see, after all, the Chinese: fare really a very sociable and peace-Joving people and though they use the, forms yang-keo" and "yang-and "yang ren" they never like to live in very close lation with that same "for This seems anomala but is nevertheless true. If we can believe that Shanghai was once mud flat it is-perfectly true it is no longer go. The Chinese more than any other body, and that for divers reasons, have no desire see the foreigners sell their propetty and leave Kuling. They would like to see them remain and if possible live just as they have done before.
But can this be done and will it be done? Will the spectre of a com munistie China, a Soviet government, a haphazard administration, an unstable state of society make China a land for strangers Or is it merely a question me and patience and tolerance and China will come to her own? When the days of transition have given place to days of construction and Stability, will Kuling recover, if ft has ever lost it, its former charm and beauty and loveliness and Pethere is no more ste cided step in the progressive history of Chinn than to sce the Chinese acquiring Jand and erecting handsome buildings thereon. Some of the most handsome and beautiful houses now to be seen on the mountain top are property of well-to-do Chinese mer-
Chinese and Cantonese present there is quite peculiar distinction made among the different residences. This house is pointed out as belonging to Cantonese, that Why should this made? Are not the Cantonese Chi: nese, and the Chinese Cantonese? It! may' be merely a difference made by the local people on account of the "difference of language. The Cantonese away beyond the Ni kang pass and overlooking th2 Poyang. lake are erecting some! very handsome buildings and apparently intend to make this a kind of Cantonese colony. They have chosen a delightful spot, rather more than an hour's ride' beyond The Road to Hangchow—ffl The coming of a new day in travel for the people of Huchow was. ushered in by the inauguration of small steamer service across the Great Lake to Wusih. "This. year, however, has seen the beginning of something still more modern, In October there.was opened the motor read to Hangchow. "From the very, st this has proved extremely pops ular, and motor buses, crowded with passengers, fly basic and forth all day long between this city and the provincial capital, This route has not only the advantage of ing fast, but has the added attri tion of' being rarely picturesque, running along the edge of range of mountains, slipping through the hills, and crossing the targer smaller plains that tie in its path, always with mountains en the back= ground. The tility of this route will probably increase from year to year, but at-present it cannot be called an, entirety comntoctable, w of travelling.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.