The following news-letter, issued by the American Church Mission's office in Hankow on September 29, has just reached Shanghai and has been placed at our disposal through the courtesy of Mr. T. J. Hollander, the Mission's acting Treasurer jachang siege heavily and the suff classes of the Chinese is very acu Sometimes, for a day or tw0, there ig no news whatever of a reliable natures then a report is_cireulated that peace negoti ing, and hopes are conce in the past week such reports have spread and have proved to be without foundation, or based on attempted peace conferences which have ended in nothing.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.