The Kwangsi-Hunen highway has now been opened and normally one can get by bus in a day's run of under twelve hours from Kweilin to Hengyang (on the Canton-Hankow Railway). We had to change buses at the frontier as usual—this T can only ascribe to inter-provincial Jealousy-—and when we had crossed the dividing stream to the miserable village of Huangshaho we found that the Hunan bus was out of action, In Kwangs! Capital any other country It would have been considered quite a minor breakdown which would have been put right in a few minutes, AN that was wrong was a burst back tyre.
But it is typical of the lack of organization in the bus services that the buses carry neither
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