The foreigners have been active in attempts to make peace, and not only has a common basis been hard to find, but the students union protested against the foreigners having any part even in this dangerous and thankless task. It may inter-fest friends to know that the university has disassociated itself from the ridiculous propaganda of middle school boys, learn our noble language from one whose mother tongue it is.
People round here are in x very excited state of mind and are fearful of possitfe trouble: military preparations are proceeding and already one city north of the river has been occupied by a hostile fores Within quite a limited area we have ix warlords with their armi each in quest of the yields the biggest revenue.
To-day he students are having a high day remembering the anniver: sary of the enforcement of the 15 demands and it is generally expected that we will have further trouble on the 30th,"
For lack of rain the wheat is poor and the cotton not yet been planted, but the opium has not been forgotten,
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