In Kaifeng' city the lootings may be evenly divided between the mon }from Yunnan and Kueichow, under Tang Sheng-chi, when he left for Hankow on the June 9, and the men of the Third Kuominchun, This latter army is under Marshal Feng, but apparently takes such orders from him as its officers think fit to observe. Marshal Feng has an orderly soul, and has made proclamation that the various missionaries, their persons, their effects and their properties, public and private, must be protected. As a matter of {fact the proclamation asserted that all religionists must be protected in the same way, and that any per-ons, who under the plea of public zeal' should vent their privy lust yuinst churches, temples, ete, should be punished under military law.
Notwithstanding this the desecration of chapels and churches still oes on, and mission properties are still occupied. The China Inland Mission Hospital in Kaifeng deen occupied as the base hospital for the Kuominchun, and there a. Medical Surgeon-in-chief, a graduate of Oxford, is in charge. He is a good man, however, and writes to the former British doctor, whose home he at present occupies, that he has cleaned up the place' from the state of filth in which he found it, after the Hankow troops Sat7 \Ieft, and that he will continue to loceupy it with consideration.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.