The special correspondent of the "North-China Herald," who has been inspecting on behalf of this Journal, the outlying provinces, discloses in this, hia last article, the utter disregard which the Japanese adopt toward offctals at far lend as Sianfu. He concludes that "self-esteem has been lost in other directions."
At Huayin I caught the slow train which took nearly 24 hours to do 210 odd miles to Kaifeng Ti was a very dirty, uncomfortable and badly run train; the journey in the third class goods-waggon on Yen Hsi-shan's railway was scareely worse. Tt fully confirmed my general experience of oilway travel in modern China: that if you want to travel with a modicum of comfort, cleanliness and punctuallity, you must stick strlelly to the so-called Special-Expresses which are Tun on most of the dines, Travel Like Shensi, that of Honan enjoys the doubtful blessings of a plurality of rulers. Gen, Shang Chen, the commander of the 32nd Army is now the Chairman of the province, while Gen, Liu Shik, who formerly held that post has been promoted to Pacifica-{ion Commissioner and still seems to have chief say in the province, In the south there is Liu Chen-hua, Chairman of Anhui, who is also Bandit Suppression Commissioner for Anhui and Honan. bby any of the slower trains is nowadays even more primitive than It was, from all accounts, when railways. were first introduced into China, Another Interesting feature of travel In. other than what one may fall the tourist-way. Is that on' all the slow trains the common people, usual, that. is to say the third: Glass' passengers, are the only nes who fave to pay their fare, With the exception Of foreigners anda very" occasional Chinese merchant
enough not to have any sequaintances (be presumably "was. unfortunate is°talway "circle, Ge" arse and second class compartments were a fast Invariably crowded. with passengers who had not paid a cent for their Uckets. These "deadcheads eluded military" offers, officials with queer special passes~often 0 queer Inst even the Ueket-inspector Could make' notaing of them=and, Shove al, subordinate railway ofa with thie families and friends, These fatter gentry travel in princely style trid put on aire accordingly. Nobody above the rank of booking-lark ever dreams, it would seem, of going anything but Viratecass, ie would. Bo Interesting to low what, amount of revenue these "free rides" represent, when spread. overall the oilways
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