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THE CHIN
Journey F
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REUTER MA TRAVELS
The speed of travel in the interior been set back 50 years, for the time b war, says Reuter's Special Correspond Chinese forces in Central China.
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Notable work has ben done by a and transport companies in maintaini vices, but when travel beyond the ter of those services is attempted, one jou spirit of the pilgrims of olden days: one rive, but no one knows when or how.
Such pilgrimages have all the fa the unexpected. One rubs shoulders variety of companions and has the anything may happen round the next road.
From Ichang to Siangyang, the alarmingly. Soon Chinese military authorities gave me proceed further, ́a permission to travel in an Army lorry, the little town of with a special permit for that purpose. night.
The next morni
STRICT SUPERVISION
It is interesting to note the increasing stated that he ingly strict supervision of motor trans- three hours for th port now in force in areas near the convoy, I set out t Chinese front.
RUINED
Drivers of vehicles must produce It presented a m permits for all passengers aboard at sight. With its w every traffic inspection point, these be- and the few peopl ing located at about every 50 miles
through the townr along the road.
Besides affording a check on travel- lers, this system has put a stop to many abuses formerly rampant, espec- ially of drivers carrying all kinds of passengers and cargo for their private profit.
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Every lorry now has а military guard, armed with a rifle, whose duty is to protect the load and, more impor- tant, to prevent soldiers or other would-be passengers going aboard by force..
By some curious Magistrate's yame unharmed, and the was there. He w man, who greeted for the state of b and proceeded to local conditions.
More than 100
3,000, he said, had Japanese first r months previously. tinued, everything moved out of the phone remained -1 chilly morning warnings.
EARLY START MADE
Nine o'clock one found us groping in the darkness round
The second raid declared, had alm us to Siangyang, lined up, with roar-ruin of the town, ing engines, in Ichang's main streets.
With gratifying promptness, the con- voy started out. The guard, one other Chinese passenger, and myself made ourselves as comfortable as possible on the colls of wire with which our lorry was loaded.
a convoy of lorries which was to take.
Soon after daybreak, it began to rain steadily, and we crawled beneath a frayed tarpaulin in an effort to keep dry but in vain. Trickles of water began to pour on our heads, and we grew steadily wetter and more uncom- fortable. AAA
The road itself, fair in dry weather, become a morass in which we skidded
few people.
POLITICAL :0 The district au trate went on, w the organisation s political basis, te necessity of resist co-operating with This work was results; asserted: mentioned that Is intended to visit workers who wer district.
Returning to t
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Kitchen
INEXES
SATISFY
Bringing Up Father
OOK MOTHER-TH:S THE PICTURE THAT NNY SENT OF HIS BABY ISN'T HE JUST
CUNNING?
OH-ISN'T
HEJUST DARLINGS
I MUST SHOW IT TO JIGGS,
KNOW IT S WILL PLEASE
HIM-
THAT'S. OUR BA BOY'S BABY-A JUST LOOK-H
LOOKS EXACTL LIKE YOU DID THAT AGE÷