The long paragraph beginning with the handsome Chinese schools for boys is-untrue in every seme tence, That school is Shanghat municipal property, supported. by, municipal funds, built within the foreign concession, but nour the boundary. Mr, Dowie, my. good, Scotch friend, is the head master and T have just called him over thd phone. In reply to my query says that the school for " Chinesd boys was never closed. Boys cone tinued their Tessons as usual. Toh all our municipal schools the Munte cipal Council had given permission for some British soldiers to be quartered. They still sleep there at night. School rooms in thd morning. are always immaculate Study is! undisturbed and tents off [the campus sometimes provide cooke ing space, ete. The British defened force here has not commandeered even one building. In all eases they. first secure the cheerful content of the owner and pay the rent which the owner ask Miss Strong is wrong in saying that the war's desolation "didn't affect the churches used by. the dominant foreigners" ete. Chines refugees from surrounding district Ihave flocked into our churches. by, the thousand. "St, Joseph's housed the children driven fromthe. ore phanage of the Holy Family. "The Church of Moral Effort which served the religious needs of the Masters gave up their Sunday School to the needs of 80 refugee missionaries, The American Community Churchy the Free Christian Church, ete. al became hostels. Christian men and women in every church were busy, housing, feeding, and clothing ree fagees native and foreign from the regions desolated by nationalist Shanghai Hospitality i There is no. city in the world sq voted to: the grace, of heeitalts
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