Travel between Yunnan and Szechuen has greatly increased. The quickest most comfortable method trips per week e made by the Eurasia to Chengtu, and the China National Corporation to Chungking. Bus service, via Kweiyang, is how-over accountable for most of the fream of travel. The buses operated by the Ministry of Communications are quite dependable and keep close to time schedules. -It requir about a week from here to Chungking by motor travel, unless small cars can be found, when the time is cut down materially.
About eight or ten delegates to the International Missionary Conference, to be held in Madras, India, the latter half of December, have flown from Chengtu to Kunming en route that important gathering. company refund me my rail fare between Boston and New York, which Nantungchow, Ku., Nov. 27.
Though the greater part of the hsien is in Chinese hands the high-Way from the Japanese base at Tungchow to the city Jukao is largely controlled by the Japanese. Any attacks by Chinese guerillas is met with retaliation. Certain towns along the main canal from Nantungchow to Jukao are virtually ruined and the population has moved off the high-Way of traffic to the more peaceful country side. area has provided news. The break in the south bank which occurred in August 1937 at last is being repaired. According to information Admiral Shen Hung-lich is raising $30,000 the remaining $20,000 required being gathered from the five hsiens chiefly affected.
The ceremony of beginning the work was held on November 19, and it is anticipated that it will be finished in two months. The English Baptist Mission is helping in medical The towns of Suantien and Tingyen|and welfare work amongst the have been hard hit. Other equally important towns but further away from the highway have escaped Japanese attention. Formerly unimportant towns and villages have now sprung up into great prominence, due to the migration of the merchants and shopkeepers from the cities to these inland and more obscure places.
The river ports are constantly shifting. It is remarkable how quickly new accommodations to meet river trade spring up on the north side of the river bank. Ofice Tiensenkang Hourished, then Sinsengang had its rise and decline now other little river openings serve as outlets of trade for the vast regions within.
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