The one big curse of this great valley is opium, Where does it come from? I saw a lot of small bundles taken aboard a launch at the upper landing, Hansimen, and from here probably comes Hochow's supply, as there is no customs officer there to search.
'Then again I saw over 90 packages landed from a Japanese steamer from Hankow. These packages were quietly landed before the regular time of opening and before the foreign customs officer came.' A large amount of opium must come down from Hankow, The fields and even gardens of Kueichow province are completely covered with the growing poppy, Are the nations not going to stop this? Surely they can get proof enough, We surely have made very little headway under the Republic, and if the students all over the land who "ai kueh" (love kingdom) strove to break up this curse, they would truly be doing something of importance for their country. The nuisance of the cigarette is getting to be almost as bad, as the people young and old are smoking to excess.
Goop Harvests:
The Yangtze Valley has been very quiet during these last few people have been ithering in their big barley and rape, and are well satisfied with the yield, They have had delightful weather conditions. The farmers are ploughing and harrowing and transplanting rice, hoping for a big crop of that grain.. The people are very quiet' and contented.
During the cholera scourge last summer Mr. Daniel Hoo, a medical student turned to and did a good work with the sick and suffering, caring for about 1,000 patients a month in the temporary dispensary. He has come back from his school at Tsinanfu and the city has engaged him: to take up the dis-pen sary again. We are glad' of this for he takes deep interest in his work and is liked by all.
Mr. Beals, of Hochow, has commenced to pull down his old chapel and will begin to build a large new church. He hopes to have it ready by Christmas, Ocr Tzeliutsing (Szechuan) correspondent, in a letter dated May 24, state that cholera has broken out at Chungking and all the upriver cities as far as Luchow, and up the small river to Fushun- It has not so far arrived at the wells.
Tue Bureau of Finance of Kuangtung is in great need of money. Having no other way for immediate relief, it has requested the pawnshop guild to pay in advance $120,000 of its licence revenue. Will not this move the hard heart Dr. Wu Ting-fang?
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