A great influx "0f soldiers is pouring into Hangchow these days. They hail from the battle area and lave to recuperate in.the environs of the west Lake for some time. Pre mises are again being forcibly commandeered, and Christian institutions entered. The homes of missionaries are not exempt from this wholesale occupation of private dwellings. Apart from this sudden Jsplutter of excitement, the city has} enjoyed "a full two weeks of the greatest peace which has been the! lot of the citizens, since the advent of the new Movement, in the early' part of the year," so remarked an. old Chinese resident. To-day, the entries were again under the clock tower of the ¥, M: C, A. One wondered if this pile of buildings had again fallen into the hands of the protectors.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.