The people of the three cities have been held up in recent. days by bandits—not like the Redbeards of Manchwria—but still quite determined, kindly highwaymen, who, in the guise of boy scouts, have been holding up the passersby and ''gently but firmly" extracting contributions for the Famine Relief Fund. The students of Boone College made a bold sally on to the streets in uniform, and gathered funds for the relief work. We hear that large sums have been collected ky the students of various schools and colleges in this way. The National Drive has been well organized: and has been carried on conjointly in the Three Cities. General Wang and Governor Hsia led the way with generous gifts of $10,000 and 10,000 strings of cash respectively, and there has been a splendid response to the strong appeals of the Central Committee.
It is interesting to hear of she adventures of three touring parties of Y.M.C.A, students from Wa-chang. Each band started out company with a foreigner just after the Chinese New Year began, largely with a view to active evangelistic work in the country districts. One party, for instance, went with Mr. W. C. Jordan first by train to Hsienking and then
miles or so to Chukungshan(Jy jy) trudged on by foot some hundred a Buddhist shrine on the sheet of Kiangsi, famous among pilgrims. The party travelled—short istances each day, stopping at various villages ow route to show their lantern slides on hygiene and Christianity and to lecture on the pictures. There were comments of wonder, grunts of pleasure, heckling and even stones from the scornful. It was all a most useful experience for the students and gave them a new sympathy with the isolation and ignorance of many of the country districts.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.