We have had a slight fall of rai in the past.10 days, enougin to help the wheat considerably, but not fell season yet. The price of grait still rises and much of it is being hauled west and south,—west—t2 meet the needs caused by last sum-fuer's Aoods and to the south where much of the ground was in opium last year. Lam glad to report that but since then it has catered for all classes in the hope that wealthy Chinese would take an interest in those less fortunate than themselves. In this it has not been without During the months of November' and December the hospital did some valuable war.work, the wards being. filled with wounded after the Shanfbaikuan battle. In these months very few of he civilian patients jeame to the hospital and anticipating a time of riot and bloodshed preferred to await their fate at home. This bears out, the report suggests, the Chinese proverb—In. times of great upheavals the cities suffer most, in times of min upheavals the villages suffer most Progress has been made by the Manchurian Army. Medical Service since 1922 under It-Gen, Wang, fold pupil of the Mukden Medical College. The Army Medical Service lof Gen, Feng Vu-hsiang is the only ther comparable to the Manchurian. Army Medical Service. A modern. military Hospital of 500 beds has} recently been erected and during the fighting at Shanhaikuan the ambulanee trains brought wounded direct to the receiving department Jof the new hospital. This is quite unique in warfare in China,
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