From Eastern Shantung has come a small army which has steadily marched through the country to the south of us on its way to shansi. This army carries neither arms nor reopens of any kind, nor is it a band of beggars, of whom there are so many in this part of China with the opening of winter. Nor are the ce (for said army is accompanied by all the impedimenta of wives, children, and household stuff) com-anies of refugees, fleeing from a famine istrict, Rather, they are families of the middle-class, small farmers who living near the sea to the East and in regions bordering on those ocubied by the Germans, are fleeing to lands where they hope the dreaded foreigner will never come. It seems hard to believe that any people should be 80 ignorant and deluded, and this action of those who love the very land on which their miserable villages stand shows how intense must be their fear to make them willing to leave them.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.