made one heave a sigh. The premises ave heavily picketed and have deen forcibly taken over by the 2o-called Government Board, I turn-Jed round by the main entrance early in the afternoon but looking up at the clock tower the fingers pointed to five minutes to eight. I asked man if the famous clock, which gives the city reliable time, had been, broken. No, he said, but when this lawless gang got inside, the clock was so ashamed of them that it wont dead. Chiang Kai-shek, I understand, has already communi: leated by wire, ordering the return, of the premises to the rightful owners, but orders fall on listless idjears and it can be traly said of Hangchow, as of old—"Every man did that which was right in his own eyes." lots of Chin Fen-chi's soldiers ave still demanding mission property. 'They are in occupation not only in Hangchow but in Tong-lu, Yenchow, Lanche, Chuchow and Changshan. In some of these places representations have been made to the churches that they must cease' Jconducting divine worship. When General Chin was apr in the matter absolutely regard was made to the appeal.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.