Frou Ovn OWN Connearoxoexr, Taiku, Shansi, Aug. 24.
In.my letter of a few days ago 1 reported the closing of their shops by the "20 hongs," acting! through the General Chamber of Commerce, in Taiyuanfu. On. the 19th the hongs paraded the streets with about a thousand men in line, each man currying a banner and/or a stick, 'They marched to. the 'Tupan's' yamen and sent in 12 delegates to sce General Yen and present, their demands. The governor did not see them in person, ut was represented by secretaries, In the meantime both the police officials and the street organizations: were endeavouring to get the hongs to reopen for business. The Students' Association was loud in its denunciation of the merchants and verbose in its explanations of its own course of action, On Friday Governor Yen issued a peremptory order commanding the shops to open for business as usual. The. most significant thing about this incident in Taiyuanfu is that Governor Yen is very evidently unwilling to adopt any course that might antagonize the students, 'The four days' strike must have caused a ounsiderable pecuniary loss to the merchants and one can but believe they would not have voluntarily brought this loss upon themselves ad there not been some good ret wu for doing so.
Conferring under Diffcultien 'The Association for the Advancement of Education in China continued its sessions in. Talyuanfa throughout the last week, For the first three or four days the evening meetings were held under some difficulties because the merchants' strike involved one of the two elec-trio light concerns in Taiyuanfu and the streets ands some public halls were in darkness. 'The second electric plant belongs' to the mille tary, but is used to light some. schools as weill as yamens and pub-Jie offices. By making—some changes it was possible, therefore, for the Association to hold its essening programmes according to schedule, including those calling for the use of cinema machines.
Probably the most distinguished visitor attending this annual meeting of the Association was Miss Helen Parkhurst of the U.S. author of "the Dalton Plan' schools, Miss Parkhurst number of lectures while in yuan fu and received with tonthusiasm. Toward—the: lose of her visit abe was present. ed with an honorary tablet bearing four characters meaning, "the Iveky star of childhood MB). The presentation speech was made by Madam Hsiung Hsi Ling. In addition to participating in their own very full programme the distinguished leaders of the Associa tion wore invited to speak before various local bodies, mainly educational,
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