Governor Yen has been paying a visit to the Southern part of the Province. He came as far as Pingyangfu where he was met by Mr. Ma, the Hotung Taoyin, who specially went to meet him. The Governor was naturally pressed for time and only spent a conventional week end in the famous capital of the great Emperor Yao, (B.O, 2300.) The Military Commandant entertained the distinguished visit or, and the Governor is returning: to Taiyuan by way of Luanfu.
These ten years have not ace customed the people of the Republic to the idea of high officials taking journeys of this kind through their districts, and amusing guesses are made as to the reason. It is im imitation, says one, of the practice of benevolent monarchs in the Golden Age, while others smell some pending catastrophe. But considering the number of schemes the good Governor has on hand in various places it is not difficult to see how anxious he must be to learn for himself how things are going Over 7,000 starving people have just been relieved in the adjoining, county of Yuanku by a party of Chinese led by the local official in company with the Rev. A. Trud-inger, with funds provided by the Taiyuan Famine Committee. The district is some distance from the more severely famine-stricken area, but the distress is equally real and the relief given fully justified. pushing the suggestion to its legi conclusion bristles with difficulties. Whilst it will not be difficult to convince the various foreign ministers having a voice in the disposal of the funds of the necessit> condition of the Government educ tional institutions inside and _outside of Peking, a good deal of judicious and painstaking negotiation will have to take place and a number of technical difficulties be overcome before any use can be made of the funds. One thing, however, is certain and that is, if the funds are really to be disposed of for educational purposes there can be no fear of the people at large raising any dissentient voice. On the other hand, if they should be handed over to either the Peking or Canton Administration without reservation it is certain that they would be used simply to prolong the present senseless iuternecine strife between the nor-them and southern militarist factions.
Since the above was written a'l the other higher educational institutions under the Ministry of Education including the Government Law, Medical and Agricultural Colleges, have joined the strike movement.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.