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Province's Record of Continued Progress "If Shansi should be invaded and become prey to civil war it would many respects be the worst} calamity that could befall modern China," said Dr. E. H. Edwards, the veteran Shansi medical missionary and author of a well-known work on the province during the Boxer massacres, when reminded by "North-China Daily News" re-Preventative on Saturday that troops were reported to be advancing against Governor Yen's 3 Dr, Edwards at once launched into 'a discussion on the progress which has been made by the provine in the direction of g004 {government and material prosperity. Showing as Shansi does an example of a elvilising influence in the Western and Chinese senee_unrivalled in the history of China since her contact with Europe and America, its disruption by civil war would be the gravest disaster she! could possibly suffer at the present. time in the eyes of the world.
"It is a grest pity," said Dr. Edwards, "that the West, which is now intensely interested in events in this country, is still ignorant of Shansi's fine' record since the revoluti
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