Show j PLO Longer S Nov 1 P In via THIn Nov days of sharp cold has silenced the artillery and in fire between the opposing and has driVen the soldiers in into to their along the entire en entrenched trenched line The apparent inabilitY of either side to eject the other from th ir and the fact that in the event one side In it not dig the othur of Its en oil account at the frost a winter Inactivity although the Japanese three days ago made a reconnaissance toward the extreme east and pushed hack the cavalrY a few miles as though they were investigating the ties fora movement It seems ImpossIble that eIth r side in any case could more than Il op opponents winter quarters Wells the lines are dry and both the where the soldiers approach unarmed and gent water under recognized mutual sanction not to tine on a single soldier Here the noble art o is confined to fisticuffs and swapping cigarettes ir are prizes are table where long li con contact tact The armies now sta stationary for so lung that they are drawing and hose forage from the distant rear all other Chinese Celebration The perfunctory of in introducing the three lays of the birthday of the dowager cnn press of Noi 18 At the drum alsO at the bell tower which are features of the main streets of all capitals large shrines were erected each enclosing a tablet with the word sdI which Banzai means Ten to the Before the are food offerings and also Last night a hun hundred dred transparencies with in were displayed In the streets but not a single for the purpose of the Ill tIon S S Today being the dowagers birthday flags and to beeer hI all the Tue general and the officials to the tablet in intile tile deserted and the of ten in all the dynasty shrines about this Chinas second capital The general with thi of the live boards and alAo mandarin dined General at the temple out de the west gate with the native guilds which bear the expenses of the birthday Their Pate Though that tho profits of the retail trade are greatly in excess of normal the less on of being no longer a wholesale market and a way station for the Immense and grain lament tile deserted highways and condone with the ofil dam of boards by h Man Manchuria churia like proper is fly nd who now awalt year to year the restoration of their functions S Private advices rom Pekin contain warnings emperor is InCreasIngly Inane sickly ad insignificant the dowager thinner and older and lacking In cordiality to al although though perfunctory in matters refer referring ring to omitting for former mer courtesies while the most c r reform Is said to be the new corrupt |