At Loyang there was a rigid search for Japanese goods, which may be confiscated (specially kerosene and sugar) and all goods have to pay import duty. Loyang, practically undamaged as compared with Chengchow, and rolleyed at that time from all threat of invasion by the flood waters of the Yellow River has"become important and ts very well run and clean, while the roads built on the wall mounds are a definite asset.
The Lunghai Railway also starts ]west from here and, being in posses sion of plenty of coal and controlled bby men previously at the coast, runs to schedule as far as Tungkwan, The tunnel mouth here is still enfiladed by the Japanese guns across the river at Fenglingtu, and until the subsidiary tunnel with exit behind the mountain is completed, everything has fo be gotten into Shenst by a cot munication trench (or road as it ow) 45 11 inj length, Hand-driven trolley ears continual ly make the trip through the old tunnel, but the eastern mouth is surrounded by shell-smashed " rolling sock. Sometimes shells fall about the Western mouth; In fact four came over while T'was there. That was beeause'T got permission to go through during daylight; Chinese merchants the trip at aight. This of Chinese elvis Hantion 1s still very interesting and unaltered. from the famous caves Lungmen Pass near Loyang; Hankuan ade famous by Lao Tee, wu trad tionally wrote his Taotechin there.
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