CONTROL, Secure behind her mountains, and only open to attack in the rear through Mongolia, Turkestan, iver, this province of Kansu is little affected by the turmoil in other ts of China. For example, the rioting in Shanghai and elsewhere finds no repercussion here. For one Feason, the Governor has not been on good terms with the educational authorities here. Indeed, one cometent observer gives this as part of the reason for his generous gift $20,000 to our Mission School. was not only a favour to us, but a slap in the face to the local educa tional authorities. At any rate, it is less than a year since General Wei, under orders from the Governor, expelled over 100 lads and young men from the Middle School here drastic action certainly, and too Teminiscent of our Rump parliamentary tactics to be finally politic, but doubtless sufficiently terrifying for the time being to overawe any students who feel inclined to show their sympathy with those nearer the coast by anti-foreign agitation, Then, again, in Kansu the Moslem Community is reckoned a semi-foreign community, And it is so greatly feared that the Chinese are not likely to do anything to throw the influence of the foreign community—great out of all disproportion to its numbers or real status, into the arms of the hated Mos-Jems. And nothing perhaps would please the Moslems more than to ce the Chinese lose face by such actions,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.