The Archive · 1927

Houses Plenty Yet Scarce

Tt may be of interest to _your readers to know something about the accommodation which Nagasaki, and district have to offer foreigners wishing to leave China for a time, While this city possesses a large! to secure house. wrtly due to the fact that]

favoured as a place of by a number of foreigners! have retired from business, or active participation in world affairs, partly to many foreign-style buildings being taken over by Japanese for business or residential purposes, and in some degree to hous: s having been allowed to fail out of repair.

Three houses have been taken by Swedish missionaries from Chine and are occupied by a little colony of about 30 men, women, and children; four of the adults ' were re-fagees here during the Boxer Rising. Very few other foreign refage: s have taken up residence here; them is the Rev. F. W. Dieterich, of the University of Nanking, who will probably accept a vacant tee-ching appointment in the Auierican Methodist boys' school here.

About 40 refugees have gone yeeort iwasaki Prefecture. Mount Unzen, the famous +ummer

Theve is a hotel and cher ac-Jconimodation there for $00 foreigners, the village is 2,000 feet above! in a wave of popular indignation that would sweep the Gorernment out of power, as well as preimitate riots, until effective action The Elder Saigo, for} instance; one of the heroes of the Testoration, once proposed: that he should goto Korea -and be kilted that Japan would then have a. lease Belli. That is _not 4. Ling, China Photographic Sees

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