Chekiang is a province of ex~ celling beauty and visitors from afar have easy access to the wonderful panaromas of hill and dale. The motor car is making the highways throb with new life and there is now 'a public service to almost every county.
For some time, the borderland of the province was. troubled, but all ig quiet again and the Government troops are in control. With these Communist-bandit scares, the people Become depressed and "hard, and anyone who has a dollar to his'name, finds its well-nigh impossible to Secure a peaceful habitation and a sure dwelling.
'A tour through the south-west of the province at this time of the year ig refreshing to the eye. Autumn is displaying itself in the woods and the leaves are fast chang Ing colour, The tops of the trees seem as if they have blossomed into fire and the ripening buckwheat is a'glorious sight, The country folk are a delight{ul people. They pass their days. in farmsteads, folded fu sen, the dips of the long sweeping valleys where all is peace but, alas, often times lacking in security, South= west Chekiang is a place of country ways and thoughts which come from the green and brown earth, and yet, it lg marvellous the array of famous men some of these quiet villages have produced.
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