Show TTATCD OA TO TRAVEL IDifflcultles Which Troops Encounter I in March to Peking I Now York Aug The country over which the allied forces arc now fighting actfordlng to all accounts of a sort to make It wonderful accomplishment i to reach Peking In the face of n superior I supe-rior force W Kal Kce ot this city I who has tra erse the route between Tien Tsin and Peking several times having gone from South China by the Grand canal says of the country Wear TIe Tsin It Is a waste of marshes with lagoons and wandering rivers The Chang Ho and similar streams Join the Pel IIo somewhere In this marsh but they are very much confused About the city to the north are rice fields and gardens Beyond these are marshes across which the railway Is built on an embankment made of bamboos driven in the earth the space between the two rows being filled In 7 ft PcI Chang Pel Tsang the first good ground is found I Is sixty 1 twenty miles from the town Tho newspapers hnve much misstated distances dis-tances because Chinese miles are one third of English miles Here aro great rice fields stretching for many miles with embankments built by the province along the river which is very crooked and with earth path running every few yards through the rice Tho water being very low these paths and embankments would I make natural trenches foe fighting Only on boats in the river or along the railway can artillery be used For twenty miles here and all about Tung Sung Yang Tsun which means dust and mud are mud fats which at this season are very dry and baked Th last summer I was along the road wo often lad to lie down and cover up our heads while the duststorms swept I by It IH i as bad to march through as walor LafaSang or the Last Place I of Mud Is where tho low his cov 1 crcd with grass begin to rise and the country from there on to Peking Is fine fne and rolling with many villages rich farms and gardens Before LafaSang is reached there Is not one stone as big as 0 mans fist which Is natural to the ground and not one tree is to be seen I the soldiers stay long lear the rivers which In the Eumiriertimo have an awful smell they will next month become I with fever ahd very many will die There are not many people living botween LafaSang and Tien Tsln except ex-cept tho Chinese whom the railroads keep at work on the track and to watch it s the water which sometimes flows two different directions within an hour will not carry L mile of It some dayIb I |