Davis returned from U.S.A. recently via French Indo-China. They got in just in time, for the day following Miss Wood's arrival the motor roads were cut between Siangtan and Changsha and Siangsiang.
General Sie Yo, Governor of Hunan went to Hengyang before the road was destroyed, and returned by launch recently. The lack of news keeps every one in a quandary. The electric light plant has been dismantled, and so every one has -been thrown back on oil lamps. Oil is scarce and expensive, Salt is almost impossible to buy, and prices beyond the reach of the poor. It is being doled out by ticket so that no one shall get more than they need. The Siangtan Salt well cannot produce sufficient for local consumption, but they are coining. money at the high prices now demanded.
There are no newspapers, and little news is coming through. Mr. F. Shoyer and Dr. Chen came through from Changsha by boat and went on to Chochow by chair on their way to Hengyang. They reported some European news, but knew little of what If You Suffer from ANY PAINS:
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