Davis relumed 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 Taunch 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 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 one shall get more than they need. The Siangtan Salt well cannot reduce 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 some Euro pean news, but knew little of what was taking place between Yochow and Changsha. Recent reports say that fighting has not been as severe the last few days, for the enemy is gelting out all the rice around the Lake region. The rice crop in that area called the Wei Tsi Li is the best since the birth of the Republic. It is even reported 10 be twice that lof any year since the Republic began.
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