Nanking, Nov. 5.
Mr, Yen Te-ching, chief technical expert in the Ministry of Railways and acting Vice-Minister of Railways, will leave for Hankow to-morrow to assume the office concurrently of Managing Director of the Pelping-Hankow Railway—Reuter, the members that the authorities could not countenance the meeting, as there was a band of bandits ported to be only a couple of miles away and they could not guarantee their safety. 'The meeting, therefore, [had to be called off, and' after running a few impromptu races, the racing fans returned in high indigna~ tion to the city, This whole incident iis highly typical of the frame of mind of many foreigners here. They seem quite unable to realize that the land where they have bern earning their living in ease and comfort for so long has now been overrun and conquered by a foreign foe, and they jate quite annoyed that anything cal a8 a war should disturb the even tenor of the pleasant Feiping soci round.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.