Guild Hall of this city Professor Dealey repeated his lecture on "Some fundamentals of reconstruction."
The lecture was interpreted by 2 Chinese. The audience consisted mostly of students but also included educationalists, business men and officials, The interest was sustained throughout and many questions were asked at the close of the lecture.
Lantern lectures on famine conditions in North China are to be given on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of this week in the Cloth Guild Hall, followed by a city wide canvass for funds on Thursday.
This week end, Mr. Crane, the American Minister, has been visiting Shaohsing. A feast was given in his honour in the Cloth Guild Hall on Monday evening? Mr. Crane spoke of the great constructive work of the Emperor Yii in reclaiming the Shaohsing plain by constructing the present. excellent system of canals and said he hoped it might be possible to get the constructor of the Panama Canal to come to China to grapple with the problem of floods.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.