constructed, many miles of roads are returning to farm land because bridges pleted and the roads nonce usable, It stil is impossible for motor to travel between JJukay and Taichow, only a litre distance apart and yet both of them walled cities. North of Jukao roads fare exceedingly scarce. Since canals have had a scarcity of water for some communication with the wsu-Shantung border s diffeult.
Travelling through the country one Is considerably more safe now with no soldiers about than a few years ago, with ill-clad troops on every ide, waiting for days about the city until funds or supplies were forth-jooming. In Jukao, too, soldiers are very few compared to previous year. They are well-dressed, well-armed, well-trained and excellently dis ciplined.
Fi lads throughout the country being dutied, and that since this type of military training was instituted bandits and thieves are far less. The Jcountry has taken on a quiet and safe appearance.
The crops this year are excellent. Peanuts in huge quantities are shipped. Cotton. beans, sweet potatoes, turnips and hogs—products of this areo—are bringing in good returns. Business less flourishing. With the approach of winter and the holidays hopes that hotier times are shead, keep up the courage of the business men.
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