Visitors to Kuling write to say that passports are now required but that o difficulties are at present put in the way of those who are without them, provided they present a bona fide appearance. Courteousness is the keynote for those who return it, and it seems that every effort is being made to help the foreigners on the rip up. course the foreign residents are greatly outnumbered now and it becomes ever more Japparent that this place which was founded by foreigners will go. th Jsame way as others, and that Hankow residents will gradually go to pastures new. It is gradually passe Ing into Chinese control. 1 believe that this season will see the end of the present system and will be replaced by a special administrative JEouneil such as exists at present in Hankow.
The New Life advocates are making, the most of their stay and are trying to reform all these whose manners Jare open to question, or whose dresses are not of the Victorian mode. Foreign women in beach pyjamas are being asked to cover their backs, and one amusing incident the Gap was when a herdsman was told to teach his cow better manners than to stop in the public highway for the exigencies of nature This movement is also trying to get hold here, but open air places of Jamusement are filled every night }with hundreds who have apparently Shocked the principles of the few, Dut it ie quite apparent that the public put comfort in this weather before prudery.
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