From Our Own Correspondent, Kaifeng, March 4.
Kaifeng is deeper in dust than ever. Housekeepers are driven to the verge of despair. Our floors are sandy wastes; a struggling humanity battles way through whirling clouds and tries to k smiling.
'Travellers' should avoid Kaifeng in the spring.
Politically things are quiet. The disappearance of White Wolf and his followers has calmed the minds of the country people. A few weeks ago seventeen heads of rob bers were suspended from nails on the city wall. There are only three to-day.
The foreign community here has been strengthened the arrival of Mr. and Mra Wheeler and family. He is in charge of the work of the ¥.M.C.A. and will develop a sphere of great influence by reaching the students of the city. Unfortunately owing to the bad climate here, not a few of the best teachers prefer Iabouring at other centres such as Peking and Tsinan, and the ablest scholars follow them. There is still a large number of students left, and we are glad that Mr, Wheeler has been appointed to this city.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.