This has been the warmest winter in the memory of the oldest inbabitant of Kansu. It is all put down to the earthquake last year. In ordinary years there are always two good falls of snow before Christmas, but we have bad no snow till three days ago, when everyone welcomed it heartily. With the lack of snow has been a corresponding increase of sickness. The mild winter has been a great boon to the many poor people who have been so scantily clad, owing to the failure of the wheat harvest and the hi Seine partly to the disturbed state rice of foreign and native cloth,
father will be much distress this the Shensi province. spring and already reports are coming in of people dying of hunger and of others who have committed suicide because of having no food for their children. could not go to Lanchow, so after ¢y, Harrowing details of the fate of much ing, pleading, and per-Yunnan troops, who were There is only one harvest a year suading he has got sufficient money slaughtered by robbers and dis-here, so unless the officials devise to ce the pened, and promises of banded Kiangsi troops, have just some method of relief hundreds come to hand. must die ere another harvest is more than half the money needed The Yunnan troops, under com-gathered in. will be soon ready and the schoo!
he building is now going up and mand of Commanders Lee and Hu, were in the rear of the main body be opened this spring. There are and were trying hard to catch up Marshal Joffre in Yokohama about 70 girls in the lower and General Tang Chi-yao when the Tokio, March 16. higher primary schools. Mr. and accident occurred. The troops had Mrs. Hing are natives of Tenngan, Marshal Joffre and party arrived just left the city of Hwai-Yuan Hupeh, Mrs. Ming having passed at Yokohama to-day on board the and had reached a spot five miles through a Government School there. str. Silver State en route to Amer-west of the city when they were sot We wish them every success and a.—Eastern News Agency. upon by superior numbers and hope they will not be ban ered slaughtered right and left. The financially. upon the roadside later all showed Registrar Mellor bodies of the Yunnan soldiers seen AN lication was made to Mr. Faincre or Goversmenr Scxoors, ates in the London Many of the government. schools signs of mutilation; many being i Bankruptcy Court recently for the in the country places are. a complete slashed to pieces after being shot.{ approval of a composition of 5s. in failure owing to the opposition of Commander Lee was wounded: the £ on the debts provable under the parents to the new system. One twice, and' finally despatched. His the receiving order made in Feb-school this last year only had six body was then cut open and his ruary, 1920, against Sir Francis scholars on the' register and the heart taken out, placed upon tha! numbers dwindled down to three theoric the Meet and carried iota oh Mr. C, 8 Jor Piggott, of Stone Buildings, tried Lincoln's Inn, W. C. jin the autumn. Another schooll crowds as a troche through the street mid jeering of Warren, Assistant Official Receiver, id that the debtor desired an ind only five "pupils "out of ve|<I9Rsnyi, APA of was. Some) mid hak the deter dated Thee tee ANd one cannot wonder lina thatched dwelling and. ron! three months, His Honour granted that the people begrudged paying! the teacher his full salary at the end of the year. One of these schools is only four miles from the city. In many villages there are no schools now as all private schools are prohibited, so at the present many children' are reviving no education whatever.
Paovem oF tHe Tescuen.
So many teachers are being turned out of the middle and normal training schools now that in the near future there is likely to be a surplus. of teachers, and only the land there are a hundred and one fittest will survive. In the home-Gifierent professions, trades ete. where openings can be found for lads leaving the schools, but in these Parts it is so different, and since coming in of the Republic doubly so. Take this city of Sining Under the monarchy there were seven military yamens each of which surrounded by armed men and an adjournment until May 2 A
Others escaped to near-by villages, burned up with the building. ie aut of affairs showed sre but were caught by the country tassets £594. for expected airist net to people who recognized them by!
Sir Francis Piggott their provincial twang and led formerly Chief Justice of them bound back to the city, where i Hongkong. thes were soon despatched. troops from the west arrived and the robber-soldiers within the city The robbers, who took the city joined with the new arrivals and of Kingyuan, and who have hold are now numbered among Kuang-it since, have been for the most Si's trusted braves, part well behaved. No looting has taken place within the city, though Wartiye ror a "Lucky Day." they have amused themselves a Routes are still blocked to traffic, little occasionally by doing a little land the launches are still riding robbing and kidnapping in the at anchor waiting for the time to near-by villages. The loyal troops} come when sailing be safe that were sent from this city to!
Meanwhile, the meretiints whose retake Kingyuan reached the out-stock of merchandise has run low skirts of the city and forthwith! have not opened their doors since commenced to loot right and left. the New Year, but are waiting for The city was not retaken at that a "Lucky day'? to come when they time, but a few days ago other ican again resume business.
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