Masses Tranquil while War Rages From Our Own Correspondent, Pochow, An., May 23.
Since the struggle began near Chengchow we have, until three days ago, been almost completely cut off from communications with that place and Kaifeng, at both of which places we have several families. For more than 10 days we had not a word of mail from either place, but heard much by word of mouth of the serious fighting going on in that region, so we.rejoiced to sec letters a few days ago from both places and especially to learn that not a hair of the head of any of our workers nor any of our property had been hurt, though, from the description of all the experiences through which they have passed, we shall not be surprised to see that some of them have become more gray. It is marvellous, and shows a condition of mind on the part of the Chinese generally, that no mission place or missionary was disturbed at Kueiteh, Kaifeng or Chengchow. I have also been quite impressed with the increasingly intelligent interest many of these people are taking in these matters. At the same time I am_ also impressed with the tranquillity of the great masses of the people in the onward pursuit of their daily affairs while war rages so near and again and again I wonder what a_ very wonderful nation this would be with even a fair show of an honest government looking to the interests of the masses.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.