Peiping, Jan. 9.
Interest _is being shown in foreign circles here regarding the likely trend of events should the United States refuse to sign another trade treaty with Japan when the 1911 Treaty of Commerce and Navigation expires on January 26.
It is rumoured that ant American posters have already been printed, and the possibility of an anti-American movement being started is not discounted.
In contrast, the anti-British campaign has practically died out. Britons are not meeting with any inconvenience whatever and the movement is now Reuter. searcely heard of locally.— than that used on the plains. The poor people simply cannot afford to}
'A few days ago the town crier went along the streets announcing that Flee, corn meal and dzamba would be' sold in the Dordra Jama-Jsery at a much cheaper price than that sold in the shops, but the price was not very much lower—only a Few cents, Two or three years ago dzamba from the Tibetan grassland used to standby when the price of rice Jand corn meal went up. The rise the price of other things has turally affected this also and now the Tibetan ground-barley is 25 cents: per catty. And an ordinary work. man will cat two catties of dzambe per day. Cornmeal is 35 cents per fealty and rice is over 40 cents.
Charcoal, which is the fuel burned in most of the homes, is $17 per 100 catties and firewood has reached the alarming figure of 1,000 cash per. fealty, The local dollar changes at 25,000 cash and 25 catties of wood is. not too much to burn in the cook: ing of three daily meals.
Over the Jedo Pass on the grass~ land, conditions are somewhat velter, The dzamba is plentiful and there is no fuel problem as there the srentle yak provides all the necessary fuel in the shape of manure. Butter too is plentiful and this, with a heavy sheepskin, helps to keep the nomad warm. [Food conditions may improve along the frontier hardly seems likely.
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