The Archive · 1939

Exorbitant Charges

Trains are still running on the Canton-Hankow Railway from Leoiteo io Hengyang and beyond. These trains, two daily each way, have been crowded to capacity going, but not so full returning. Exorbitant prices are being paid for chairs and carriers into country places. Wheel barrows keep going day and night, taking goods and household things away from the city.

The Post Office has moved but a daily delivery of mail is still being kept up. The Farmer's Bank moved to Shaoyang just before the road between here and Siangsiang was torn up. Many shops are transporting their goods by water to outlying ëf consummation would be very wel-population is now faced with inevit-neighbouring province.

Szechuen, therefore, was compelled places. conic, büt in this case the cure happens to be worse even than the disease, for instead of the dangers of

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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