One event followed another filustrating that forces were at work stirring up trouble in the different departments of Mission enterprises. Suddenly" the "mould Iburst into flame, and dai added as repens of the events of May 30 in Shanghai were heralded from every street corner, in tea shops, and from placards' posted on every wall.
For a week the city was given up to propaganda work. The day for the great parade was set for Sunday., Shops were closed. All, the different uilds and unions joined. Conditions looked 0 ominous, that the servants in some quarters moved their things from the foreign com pounds, and even the gateman sat doors opposite, lest they should be found in the service of foreign-Eroeything hed been arranged ug in arranged by the scenes, Monday sweeping scarey 2 bleard, could "be'feand: on the streets; they had disappeared over night. Street preaching came under the ban. What a breath of relief when on Monday morning shops all opened, and the life of the city resumed its usual course, One other bright spot Guring there days of anxiety the successful closing exercises the West Chinese Christian Union University. The dates were contemporary with the day set. apart for the parade and the Monday following." The students joined the parade but were back for the baccalaureate sermon, which was conducted'in the evening.
An Ideal Graduation General Yang Sen with the military band, and prominent educationalists were present. At three thirty the Governor and his staff started the academic parade. First came the Middle School students, 56 of whom had received diploma: next the Normal School of whom 36 had received the one year diploma, then Junior and Senior College students, followed by the graduat~ ing class, Six men received diplomas. For the first time, a University class of girls took part in the parade. A new class is to be received in the autumn so that now a com The head tment of Education gave a very thoughtful address, advising the students not to interfere with political affairs. The new thought movement not helpful in building up solid citizen ship, and in his opinion, Bolshevism was not in harmony with Chinese life.
As life in Chengtu has gone along quite smoothly, notwithstand; strenuous attempts to the by the Bolshevik element, it is qi dent that, when the authority are firm, the unruly mob easily kept in order. affords an example, of off toriness, jealousy.and tration, that makes x marked contrast with Chengtu and the whole district under Yang Sen.
The Evil Contrast of Chungking As one reads of the terrible experiences men, women and children passed through, as they were forced the inuetivity of men who pose as China's leaders, hastily to leave their homes, and without aid of any kind to carry their children and the few necessaries that could be tossed into pillow cases, down rough mountain paths, having been deprived of servants and the privilege of securing food, and transported to the dangerous' heat of Central China, and that in the commercial metropolis of the province, where half a dozen so called generals have their headquarters, the impossibility of relying upon the present generation of officialdom for humane treatment ard justice, nitist be evident to all who study the present situation.
Yet these are the men who would dethrone the one man who has both the willingness and the capacity to make Szechuan one of the progress ive provinces in China. Though tacked along the entire eastern line, Yang Sen, is gradually moving eastward. All who have been in, touch with his progressive policies cannot but wish that in the near future his opponents will desist from their opposition of hate, and jealousy, and unite heart and hand with the forces that seek the good of all. The wanton expe! ture of men and money in the mean-ingles strife that has, and is being carried on, would in a decade of two construct railroads and highways to all parts of the province.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.