Motor transport is not crowded yet our road. Think of having torn up. a strip of people's land 20/25 yd. wide and impressed labour to level and surface it in order to carry half 4 dozen cars per week! I doubt not there will ere Jong be at least a couple of cars per day passing: but have demanded a Surface for any imaginable trafic on this line is outside my understanding.
The local Party centre has put on strong anti-Japanese programme. "Why should we fear or cringe? "When the next war breaks out we must insist on- our right to a place in world affairs". "Are we to stand idly by and allow them to go with their polley of swallowing our whole country?" (How I wished as Ustened to this harangue that I had cartoon of a Peking pup swallowing a St. Bernard.) People are not apparently much excited yet; but if the effort is continued tong enough something will happen.
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