All sorts of local celebrities cams out to the bus-station to have a look fat me and hear my opinion of Szechuen, 'They were very well up not only in local polities, but also in those of China generally, and altogether seemed to consider' themselves citizens of the world and not merely of Chienkou. This wide-awake attitude which I ageribe mainly to the motor road shows what an important role it is playing in the awakening of the remoter parts of the country.
I slept very badly ai that platform outside the sub-station, We were up very early next morn-jing and after another climb through very beautiful scenery, descended Jonce more into the plains and after Jerossing two rivers by ferry, skirted the important town of Kuangyuan, There is an airfleldéhere, and we met a stying of empty Government lorries returning {9 Chenglu from where they had been bringing up supplies of petrol for the aerodrome. In view of the then existing situation in Szechuen this may. sound strange, Jbut so it was, and Jean offer no explanation.
About a couple of miles beyond Xuangyuon the motor-road runs high up along a river, with a stone balustrade on one side und sheer jeliffs on the other, This is the famous Clift of a Thousand Buddhas, the free of the rock being carved with hundreds of small Qgures. Here Wwe stopped to clean our. sparking plugs, and were just in the middle of "this operation when I heard shouting down the road and looking up saw a horde of wild-looking fellows with banners, spears and anclent muskets coming'ata trot down the Yoad towards us. "We're for i" I thought, and remembered with re-ret that the clearance of a modern car is so small that one cannot craw!
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