From Oun Own. Conmisroxvexr Kaifeng, Ho., Feb, 22.
In. these days it seems useless to' write a letter describing local] conditions, for if it is mot posted immediately it will certainly be]
to the waste paper bes-ket.
Over night the situation changes, Jor else a new hatch of rumours are afloat, making "the news of yesterday quite out of date to-day." However a glimpse over the present loca? Honan situation, as it appears to us in Kaifeng, may not! be cut of place.
Tt is well known that Marsha! Wa Pei-fu's Generals in this pro: vince have been quarrelling, among themselves, and their disunity ha been the reason no attempt has been made to advance against the South.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.