The one event which has cheered us particularly is the second vi-it to Hankow from the besieged city of the Rt. Rev. Bishop A. A. Gilman and Dr. A. Paul Wakefield yesterday, bringing with them Miss Sidon, who ig not to return at present. They came on a launch which brought over delegates. more to a peace conference and seemed confident this time that there is likely to be constructive! action.
The exact nature and details of the peace proposals are not made!
lie but the fact that there ars real attempts to hold a parley at all is encouraging. It is gratifying to find that leaders in the Church, on both sides of the Yangtze, have won the confidence of the Chambers of! Commerce, and of the people sen-rally, as well as of military' officials on Both sides of the conflict, Nort ern and Cantonese, to the extent of "The particular object of Bishop Gilman's visit is to help to forward the proposal which the Rt. Rev. Bishop L. H. Roots has worked so hard to carry out—the peaceful removal of women and children from the besieged city afore famine sets in.
Now that Miss Sibson, Mr. and Mrs. F. E, A. Shepherd '(who left! Jon leave on September 23) and Mr. 'A. 8. Kean have come out of Wuchang, the number of foreign! Church workers remaining in that city is reduced to 15, Apart from these, there are nine other foreigners in the city. They are all well and busy, to the full extent of their powers in caring for refugees, com forting the distressed and panic-stricken people, nursing the sick and wounded, and protecting: the Church property. They were able to out letters, the first in nine days, relatives and friends, through the: hands of the three fellow-miss
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