The Chinese are following the course of the war keenly, and very naturally they are anxious about the probable effect on China, The action of Japan at Kiaochou raises suspicions in their minds which the native newspapers have done nothing so far to allay. The Yunnan people are a peaceable and orderly community and may be relied on to keep the peace under even extraordinary circumstances. The Chiangchuin and his advisers _appear to have the situation well in hand, indeed affairs in Yunnan are improving steadily. The harvest this year is a very bountiful one and Should minister to the content is calculated to tone up business and gratify the people generally.
As a new arcade has been built lon either side of the city god's palace, there is the further—prospect of returning good times, which will go far to vindicate the faith of the fathers and confound the sneering contemptuous youngsters who fill the schools with their useless clamour about new times and manners.
The followers of Confucius are {also busy in organizing and _con-dating the Holy Church of El ina" through which the lapsed morals of the people are to be restored to a working basis. Nevertheless, so human are we all, the object of paramount interest is the war.
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