Last week @ boat load of servants of one of the departmental heads of the Pel-Chuan Railway were coming to Chungking by small boat to meet their master and escort him up the ttle Fiver. "Someone who noticed that they had a gun or two raised 0 ne and ery and at the next station soldiers were waiting for them and opened fire without warning. Eight men were Killed at once and the others only' saved themselves by Jumping Into the tiver. The soldiers hastened into the junk, decapitated the eight bodies and carried off the heads to their superior officers to claim the reward for" captured 'A group of'cinema actors from the Lien" Hua Moving Picture Ca, has arrived in Chungking to mace picture showing the famine misery in Szechuen. They are being given every encouragement by the Finance Mr. William H. Potts, a wanderer from' Blimingham, England, has just ott port on his way to Tachientu and ang. "During the last. eighteen months he has been in most of the countries of the world and. tried almost every known means of transportation. "He hopes to work his way Aeros Tibet by untried routes with the object of writing a travel book.
River raffle Resumed With the rise of the water to seven foet this week there was a great rush of vessels, which have lain idle for three months at Ichang, into port, The community is rejoicing once more In plenty of down Fiver supplies and quick parcel mail. The steam Ships nearly all cleared for down. river again within 24 hours most of them heavily Yoaded with wood el. There is a surplus of 10,000 tons of wood all waiting for shipment 10 a ready market down river so the shipping firms are in for a busy tine.
It is reported that one of the six points of agreement between Nanking and the Szechuen Government is that Chungking is to be turned over the Central Government authorities as 8 special administrative district. To-ay the local papers carry an account of the resignation of Mr. Ho Beh-hen from the position of Police Commissioner and speculation is rife as to whether this is the first step towards the new order of things.
's"age-long isola lon, Air service has alrendy been Instrumental in bringing quick dlveet communleatlon from the const, Thi highway fs a further and even more Important Vinh, A hallway to Kwel-chow and thence to Hunan, now be-Ing riven the final survey will "com plete the connection and join Yunnan {o the rest of the country, Rotary Delegate Mr. Yun '7, atlas, Chairman of the Yunnan Reonomle Cotinell, has Sust returned by Eurasia plane from an extended visit at Shanghai and Nan Kini, on business for the Council and the Yunnan Government, While away ho also oltonded the second District Conference of Rotary Clubs at Nan-King. He ts president of the Provisional Rotary Club of Kunming. recently organized with 34 members.
Mr, and Mrs, W. J. MeLaughlin recently departed for their leave after more than a year in Hf M. Consulate General here. where he has served as Vice-Consul. They will visit In the United States before going on to Eng~
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