Everywhere one saw counters Tined with the evidence of modern industry in China and the persuasion so well known in the West for the communists wHo were in the French Concession was offcially closed after Yi Hsin-ssu and the other girl had been surrendered. The Chinese papers now narrate the final closing of the incident for Yi Hsia-ssu herself. At her first and second examinations she maintained silence, but at the third she admitted that' she had written fa large part of the contents of the "Great River" newspaper and on the strength of this admission she has been shot. The other girl is still held by the authorities, The time fixed for the execution seems have been widely known.
In this connection a friend of a high official expressed to the writer the opinion that these executions are not accomplishing their purpose fas a deterrent. She narrated how a boy of sixteen, arrested during 8 raid on @ communist centre, was Drought before the court. The presiding oticer expressed the view that this child should be treated leniently as he had doubtless been led astray by the others. "Led astray," said the boy,*"why 1 lead the others!" He now ranks as one of the heroes of the cause, and his readiness to be shot is doubtless proving an inducement to other boys to join the cause. Whilst one never wishes to sce a human being sent a Chinese prison, it is clear that a sentence of five years' imprisonment would be as effective a punishment for these children.
Two wealthy ladies who went out to the Hung Shan to worship have catching the public fancy and pocket-book was being employed to good purpose, All the trivial cheapnesses of daily life were being expressed there, along the lines of goods originally imported by the foreigner into China, only now modified and elaborated upon by the unconscious psychology of the Chinese manufacturer who used as one of his drawing cards the motto "Buy in China, things mai furored by Chinese."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.