A suitable text for'a discussion of the present conditions in China is thrust upon one in the form of the Tungchow city gate. Like most creations of its kind it is a poor worm-eaten wooden affair, ragged below and above and at the sides, and so emaciated than an obstreperous donkey might almost kick his way through, During the war with Japan there slowly dawned upon the citizens of Tungchow the fact that their city defences were something less than formidable, and an earnest effort was made
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.