When at the end of last year the ment in the interior provinces of Chi so far subsided as to allow foreign-rs to proceed inland with a fair degree of as. Suravee, to none did the news give more satisfaction than to the exiled community of West China, In all that works for the common good and interest of all it would be difficult to find a more homogeneous sob than the foreign colony of this west. True they have their little interna jealousies and bickerings, signs of a healthy oversight one of another, and marks of family love, but all such episodes are marked "private" and trespassersare not helen At the best the journey from Shanzhai is a test of patience and dose tructive of good principles. Delays, losses, possible injuries and so on all gave emphasis to the with which the advent vf the S.S, Suilstang was hailed. Alas the commonest lament now is for things that lie buried twenty feet benvat the waters of the Yangtze, where the ill-fated steamer disappeared,
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