Dominance; No Place for Foreign Exports Kalgan, May 14. HN February a party of foreign journalists visited Kweihua (Suiyuan) under official gathered from newspaper report Japanese guidance and. as one ts, returned from their trip with glowing accounts of the happy conditions existing in Inner Mongolia, was, one was given to understand, almost second paradise. Prosperity with " capit "P" a land of peace and plenty, with booming trade and flourishing local industries, and a perfectly happy and contented people.
Knowing what the local con: ditions were like here in Kalgan, these roseate reports rather surprised me.
It was therefore with considerable curiosity that T° pai jid a visit to Kwethua and other towns a little time ago. After a stay of several weeks in those parts I returned very disappoint: fed and failed to understand what basis there "was for such opti jimistic reports. From what observed, conditions in Inner Mongolia seem to me not only not roseate, but actually do compare prior to the invasion.
The former flourishing export busi ness on which the prosperity Kweihua depends is nowadays _completely at a standstill, This is duc toa variety of reasons. In the first place, the great caravan route from Kans and Chinese Turkestan is en-rely interrupted. The Chinese front lines lie only a few miles west of Potow, the terminus of the Peiping-'Suiyuin railway. Along that ancient caravan route long strings of camels, trudging along slowly but steadily two-and-a-half miles per hour—never more and never ess—used. in former times to. bring in skins, wool, and other products of the far west, not to mention the large profitable caravans with opium. That has all ceased completely; no' caravans arrive these days at' Potow oF Kweihua,
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