With thankful hearts the people have seen Gen, Wang Wel with his troops of the 24th Division move fay at last. The soldiers were some months behind in their pay and had beea threatening mutiny for several weeks. previous to. their departure, to the great alarm of the people, many of whom had removed themselves to Kaifeng and other places. for refuge. The men were aid up, however, at Toast in part, fand finally moved off in-pence to their new stations on the King-Han Railway, north of the Yellow River.
The new military commander in charge of the Kueiteh District Lui Huan-chen, one time an officer in the Sed Division, He is aman of 40 or thereabouts and gives pro: mise of being able and energetic. The new troops are a part of the Mixed Brigade under Col, Hua and seem to be very well behaved, t0 be $0. of the newly arrived soldiers are in the Canadian Mission Hospital down with typhus. They must have brought this with them, of course, as they have only been here a few days. It is to be hop {here will not be an epidemic of this dread dis The A young Russian refugee turned the first He w: a young fellow of about 20 wit practically no knowledge of Chinese or English and claimed to be mal ing his way on foot from Shanghai to Peking. One is certainly sorry for these poor fellows and willing to help them out, but it is a very bad thing for foreign prestige to have them wandering around the country begging their way from place to place. Presumably Trotsky and the proletariat of Russia would be with us heart and soul if we left these poor unfortunates to starve to death.
The Crops.
The wheat and barley harvest, now over and the weather has kept very fine for the ingathering. Owing to the former drought there is not much more than half a crop this year, but even so the price of wheat has gone down during the last.three weeks from §2 a "teo" to about $1.50.
The autumn crops have got a: good start and a little shower of rain.on.
Tuesday evening last was—very: ceptable, but the farmers would like to: beeimores:
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