New Britain herald., 1930-08-12
CHANGSHA IS HOME
 OF F|RECRACKERS
City Taken by Chinese Rebels
 Exported to U. s.

Washington, D. C., Aug. 12.- Changsha, China, reported captur- ed by Communist forces, is describ- ed in a bulletin from the Washing ton, D. C. headquarters of the Ma tional Geographic Society as fol- lows:
 "Changsha is city of fireworks, literally and figuratively The Fourth of July firecrackers used by the American small boy before the Safe and Sane FouS6' was so widely enforced were imported heavily from Changsha. The city long was focal point for opera tions between the northern and southern armies, especially in 1922 when it was scene of the long de- layed meeting of the two units.
 Capital of Hiuy Human
 "The city is the capital of the hilly province of Human, important because it contains enormous coal fields many unworked, and be- cause in it, to the north of Chang sha, is the huge lake, Tung ting hu, which acts as a reservoir for the Yangtze floods.
 Among Changsha's most inter esting sights are the wheel barrows that climb stairs. Some distance ahead of the regulation wheel there is another smaller one. In climbing over flagstone steps or bridges, the handles of the wheel ha Hilary wheel rises above the next higher step. Then the wheelbarrow, which often carries 300 or 400 pounds, see-saws from wheel to wheel until the next level. stretch of the flagstones is attained.
 Comet Helped Start a Riot
 Tn Human, the necromancer has eXerted much power and Changsha was so we'll protected by the lucky constellation under which it was founded and by the Holy Hill which guards it that it formerly Was thought q proclamation for the foreign devil to enter. In 1910, there were serious riots, mainly di- rected against the growing commer- cial power Of foreign firms but the disturbance also had it's astrono- mical accompaniments, for it was the approach of Halley's comet which touched off the explosion.
 Today Changsha is closely link ed with New Haven, Connecticut, for there is, just outside the rap idly disappearing wall, in which the inhabitants once took great pride, one of the best known mis- sion schools in China, which is Yale's contribution to the, education of the Chinese who cannot come to America.
 Province Has Coal Beds
 "A large part of Human is an un- worked field of anthracite and bi- luminous coal and at Pinghsiang, which is connected with Changsha by railroad, there is one of the mines which furnishes fuel for the great iron works at Hanyang.
 Among the great men who have been among Changshas chief pro- ducts the most famous was General Tseng kuo Fan. whose cooperation with Chinese Gordon was largely Instrumental in putting down the Taiping rebellion. General Tscng was not only a soldier and states man but a literary man as well and his collected works of 156 looks were edited by Ii Hung Chang.
 "Changsha lies on a projected line of railway between Peiping and Canton; and trains have already competed with the light-draft steamers which make the 92o mile trip from Hankow. With about b0O.0OO inhabitants, it rules prov ince of o2 million and is one Of the cleanest cities in China,
 Famous for Candies
 Many of the streets are long and straight and at one time the city itself was divided between two rnagistracies The bazaars are full oi life and interest. some Of the candies being famous for miles around.
 "The Episcopal Mission has a live Boy Scout troop and the visitor who watched tent-pegging, fire resi- cue, stretcher making and other Boy Scout activities would marvel 8. China's quick changes. For un- til af,er the Boxer trouble. Humans capital excluded the dread foreign CT from its walls whose brick bat dement's, rising above the site of q former wall constructed in POP E. C., were themselves built while Shakespeare was alive"