In the beginning of this week six boats left with missionaries for the west. Several of the missionaries were ladies. Many of them wished to break the boat journey at Wanhsien and proceed overland to the north-west parts of Szechuan. In the present very unsettled state of affairs it seems very unwise and foolhardy, for ladies especially, to attemp* such overland journeys. We wore glad to hear that our Consul had advised carefulness and proposed the ladies going on to Chungking in the meantime,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.