The Emmanuel Mission Hospital las no room for any out-patients, as their quarters are very cramped, but all the beds are occupied, for the hospital became extremely popular, and many had to be turned away, who could only lay claim to gumboils, palpitations, and such li and were not considered eligible! A widow, with several small children, who lives in the hospital street, asked permission to hang a notice' outside her door, "Foreign medicine sold here." She said that would be an_ infallible protection.
A Red Cross Association has been formed, and I am told that every subscriber of $25 is given authority to hang the Red Cross flag outside his door Yung-ting's generals have fallen aw from him with the exception of Tan Hao-ming and Ma Chai. These three have escaped to Lungchow (near the French border), where thousands of others have gone. An epidemic of cholera. has broken out there, however, and the French have closed the frontier.
General Wong, a retired official at Lungchow, has been here at the head of affairs; and, in conjunction with the Chamber of Commerce, is doing his best to preserve order and keep things hanging together, but now he threatens to give up and go home.
A peace deputation left by special boat to meet General Chen Chiung-
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