Fear of Bombing in Taiyuanfu Having Effect By Rita Faéxs, Oe Ows Conrsroxnent Tachients, W. China, Feb, 10. walked in, Immediately te asked Tachienlu was having a very|%S if we had heard about any ford, time, and every "one in this trouble "on the street last night rider town seemed to be perfectly We informed him that we had had Happy and satisfied. "The Lao avery good night's vest and. were Shans, Chinese merchants from absolutely ignorant of any untoward Shensi, made the city ving with incident in the city, He did. not their' gongs, drums, and cymbals.
'The year 1932 had' not been very sty mach but tid he ad heard [streets" around ten Of people running. about Successful from a business stand Point, but it was past and gone: ight, Not having heard Bie powers that be hed made Tones ourselves we could give demands on their precariaes no help or information. Nata ings, thir too could be forgotten; W88 naw. discovering that Hilden-the interior had been full of strife borough in Kent and Tach and ible and not conducive. to re. two entirely different commercial enterprise: internecine laces. Poor fellow, he with many warfare had practically made the Jothers sat up all night, no doubt road to the coast an impossibili waiting. to see what exactly was 30 the musk, one of Tachienlu's [going to take place. Te so hap-main means of revenue has to wait Bened that it was just one year for better times and better roads, from the ight General 'Ma "was None of these things, however, murdered. kept the Lao Shan from having good time. New Year only comes accurately what was the cause of No one has been able to discover 'Once a year so the Chinese mer the trouble but all are' convinced chant on the frontier was deter that the city came very near being mined to beat the drum, bang the destroyed. Shortly after ten o'clock gong, and clang. the cymbal." His fat night the city was lined" with own native city Sian, was once the troops apparently standing ready for capital of China, and his own any emergency. This in itself' was native province witnessed the ex-enough to scare the populace and plaits of Ts'20 Ts'no and Liu Pel, one without the pose-word dared 80 Why worry about merchandise 0 on the street. One report which and commerce and the Jong road_to fame. out later was that the Lolo the coast, troops in the city were to be dis. armed. "The Lolos on the border fare a law unto themselves and Present they are quartered in the Tibetan Lamasery outside "the 1|South Gate. The general in com-
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This however one shop probably" could not hear the noise of the other.. While the Lao Shans were making this mand of them is partly Lolo and how he controls them is one of the mysteries of military' tactics. Evidently one way of holding their allegiance is to let them do, what Shansi, Mar. 1, The general situation in North China, involving as it does the imminent outbreak of heavy fighting between the Chinese and Japanese in the Jehol area, is having effect in Shansi. According to reliable reports, there iswwidespread Taiyuanfa. amongst the civilian population that the Japanese will bomb the city as part of their plan of campaign, and local contractors are doing a flourishing business in building dugouts. The notice issued by the Kung An Cha with instructions and precautions to be taken by individuals daring an bombing of the city by the Kuomintang' two years. ago, when abject fear drove people in' thousands out of the ity to the motor roads and the fields on all fair weather days. Some. of the inhabitants constructed caves in the loess dif of canon formation outside. the forth and east walls of the city.
There is some talk of an early start being made in railway. enter peas ithe province and apparent. ly it has been decided to make the Fung-Pa line from Tatung in the North through Taiyuan and Taiku te the south of the province of metre gauge t> avoid transhipment of goods coming in on the Cher {ai Fine, and to use rails having weight of 35 Ib. per yard, ap imately." On otrely theoretical rounds a gocd deal of criticism has been directed against the proposal to. build narrow gauge. Ines tervifie din the" Chinese soldiers from the different camps in' town were entertaining the populace with a wild looking, frisky lion; while in another part of the town a terrible. looking dragon made to perform no end of frantic twist. ing movements. On one of the main afreets three tables were piled hich and'on the logs of the top one two soldiers wore giving some daring aerobatic stunts, A number of schools boys got inside a queer Joking skin and performed around the city earning in one day some sixty rupees. 'The soldiers also made considerable sums and as the Vion and dragon could be. con-Veniently pawned, sold, or borrow: ed, different, companies' had the us of it to raise their own private ex-
The Tibetan New Year 'The Tibetan homes ip the elt, Mown as "Go Chuang', also had Hier" New "Years festivities, "tu Fhehiente" there" are 48 large they like up-to a certain point. The fn'Shansi, and "expert "opinion is secret of control is knowing just divided on the subject, but continu Jexactly where. the point is. General ity of gauze—admirable. in' prin-with atin hand, and a Den apparently blind eye: ink lines-cat be bought ct too
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