Nanning, Jan. 11
Nanning, the "last stand" Old China, is slowly capitulating to the new forces pressing every side, It was almost Indicrous to watch a reactionary, old fashion ed timid community trying to meet the modern situation. The immi grants from other parts of Chins, who have settled here carried it along in spite of itself. The situ tion reminded me of when Twas a boy and I tried to rouse brother one morning out of bed—a cold sponge proving ineffectual, I tore the clothes off, but he would not budge, so I dragged the mat tress on to the floor, but he still clung to it!
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.