seems to be at last fairly over. Yesterday a strong S.W. wind set free several inches of moisture and though ice is still to be seen on the river it is very rotten and rapidly disappearing. Grain is dear. Traders have come from various other ports to purchase preparatory to the the spirit of the merchants of China could opening of the river. Itis regrettable that not be made to replace that of the official class. Yet of these there is an occasional one, He whose name so terrified the Japs that they did not dare march on Linoyang was really a good magistrate. Ho was coll, just and kind and honest. To rove his bravery it may be noted that he Tefused to be dictated to by the Roman Catholic priests, which in Manchuria is a piece of great daring. Another man to whom Manchuria is more indebted than to any other official was Yii Yi-chang, secretary of the late Governor-General, who I grieve to learn is, for private, not public reasons, put out of office. He deserved better things at the hands of the Government. 4 vote of the populace would place him in high office. The Lisoyang magistrate is sent off to Kansu on a kind of promotion which for some reason is called I
27th March.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.