A short time ago I was away in a district city of Tongsbii aod beard all the ramours about the partition of China by the Powers. All the schools in the city bad strack and the pupils bad gone home; the teachers had refased to have special drills, etc. I tried to contradict the ramour bat was met by the remark that these statements bad appeared in the paper; this was quite waflicieot; whatever was soon in print must be trae. On retaming I beard that these stories are being persistently circulated and believed by all the schools here, and now, by your issue of December 27, I see that the ramour is wide-spread,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.