Mr. A. J. Clements, whose name will be familiar to many of our readers for his very interesting correspondence from Western China, has recently joined the Salt Administration and is now stationed at Wutungehiao, a position which we sincerely hope will not prevent him from continuing to record his observations of Chinese life and events.
Mr. Clements came to China about 12 years ago in connexion with the Canadian Church Mission and was appointed to the Salt Wells district in Fushunhsien (Sze.) After spending about two years there, chiefly as a language student, he was transferred to Tachienlu a year before the first revolution broke out. Tachienlu was considered unsafe for foreigners so Mr. Clements drifted down through Yunnan to Shanghai and was detained in this part of the Republic for some time, during the interval assisting in famine relief work at Antong. Returning to Tachienlu he remained there engaged in general mission work until the close of 1919, during which period he made several long journeys westward, taking in Derge to the north and Batang to the west. A close student of China's affairs, Mr. Clements' articles on events on the borderland of China and Tibet are probably the only reliable record extant of Chinese and Tibetan activities during the past four or five years. He has also been a keen observer in other directions. his articles on musk and other products of the Far West being unusually interesting.
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