The only new propaganda. poster! I noticed was one in which the peogle were exhorted to "Keep alive! the spirit of the movement to oppose Great Britain." -On the main business street, at the door of a Jazge store, T saw a huge picture posted' of "John Bull? wearing a waist coat made up of the. Union Jack, This cartoon depicted "John Bull" savagely treading down the crowd of weak and famished people. The letterpress proclaimed the ssu pose? brutal treatment which Great Buitaip had meted out to the defen-
Travelling perilously as Aimsy Jgoatskin rafts most of the wai party of about 60 missionaries, mostly belonging to the Christian Missionary and Scandinavian Al-Tianees and the China Inland Mission, reached Peking yesterday after 28 day trip from Kansy, duri which the leader, Dr. George King, 'a Briton, was drowned in the trea-choreus rapids while attempting to {free one of the rafts which had fouled the rocks.
The party had several encounters ]with bandits, but they speak highly lof the evacuation facilities provided! by the Kansu offcials.—Reuter.
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