The fact is, Wenchow is a city of small industries (paper umbrellas) and certain' fruit and vegetable pro-duets (Wenchow bitter oranges) and {ig effectively isolated from the in terior, being as self-contained, as any' small' country town of only a few thousand inhabitants, Mountains raise a wall on the west, and the sea is to the east. North and south in Techow and Fukien, are arcas having different customs and lar guages. Thus the produce carried either in or out by the foreign steamships now running' the blockade represents the normal, or less than] normal, trade of a confined country area.
Tt has been believed all along that] these facts would be a better protec: tion to the city than anti-aircraft guns. Probably, too, the Japanese have not considered the mean wooden houses to be worth the price of an expensive bomb.
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