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Kweiyang, Kwel,, May 23 For some days, health emeers have been active on the streets vaceinating all willing to be so treated with the result that large numbers have been dealt with. According to papers these officers will soon go to the east of the province for the same purpose, T learn that the authorities of neighbouring provinces are refusing to vise the passports of foreigners wishing to enter this province, giv-Ing as. their. reason the statement that. Kweichow is a' "robber district," but I imagine that it is not any more so than other provinces, though we cannot claim that it is robber-free. Some people think that other reasons of a military nature, may. be the' real explanation, The bronze statue garden on "the site of the old North Gate was planned quite attractively but owing fo negligence of the omeials con cerned it has fallen Into a very dis fracetul state of untidiness, the grass Plots being now but bare earth and occupied by. pedlars or peepshows, while many' of the trees have been partly or wholly destroyed. 'This garden ig but a small one with the Statue' of the late Gen, Chow Hslchen as its raison d'etre, and. could be made a very attractive place with its stone seals and its trees if were well Kept and people were strictly forbidden to tread on the grass plots; as it Is now, it is an eyesore,
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