Chungking, Feb, 22.
Atter a lapse of nearly 20 years the green flag of the Post OMice is sean fence more on fleets of junks between here and. tebong. "With alt foreign shipping stopped and the progressive Ming Sung Shipping Ca. only able to operate its smallest sicamships in three stages, something had to be done to care for the accumulation of mall here and in. Tel Thousands of ous were cleared away by junk and idants were reported, Even the bags on the wrecked Shuiung which were plundered were recovered with negligible loss." The post om lee Feports an increase in pares! mall, 'This is probably due to' the feeling of merchants that when other chan= nels fall the Post OMice will ud some way.
The Club held a very successful Ragamuiln Ball on Friday night. The weekly Friday night cinema which thas eon the gift to the community of the U.S. gunboat in port will have to cease after this week until the water rises and more supplies can come up.
Tt ts reported that the law sult following the unfortunate incident of the death of a child from burns in the Canadian Hospital is to be settled amicably. The local papers gave a rather erroneous account of the affair,. The child was already very li with Pneumonia following measles and was the family amah who " insisted fon staying in the room in spite of hospital rules, "who caused the accident to the lamp. The child suffered only slight burns but the Shock may possibly have hastened its
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