Chinkiang, Oct. 18.
On Commemoration Day it poured with rain so that only those who had business to do ventured on to the streets. Monda# was somewhat finer and numbers of children were about on the streets waving patriotic flags. Some scholars from the government schools paraded the streets headed by a band but this was all there was to be seen in the way of a demonstration.
The new match factory was officially opened on the 3rd instant, and at the reception leading officials and gentry, both Chinese. and foreign, were invited. At present the factory gives employment to about 200 odd women and children, but it is capable of employing more than this number if trade prospers. On the whole the farmers around here and across the river have succeeded in gathering in good harvests and there are late exports of beans and wheat. So far no public effort has b en made to raise funds for the famine, but the members of the mission schools and churches have made contributions to help their brethren in distress.
Chinkiang maintains its reputation for change. Nearly all the Customs officers are new men, some of them being ex-service' men. Several changes have been made in the business firms in the Concession so that now new faces are to be met with on the streets. Our sheriff and his wife have recently returned from a trip Home and they look all the better for the change. Several new missionaries have also come out to join the 8. Baptist Mission. Dr. Robbins and Nurse Sales have also returned to this port, and the large women's hospital of the Methodist Episcopal Mie-sion situated on the hills is orien again and many women are seeking the benefit of its kindly ministrations.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.