Hangchow, June 16.
During the past week-end we have had a visit from the son and daughter of one. who, when the war was at its most acute stage, was called by the British Government to organize the shipping, who -was made Minister of Shipping and, from his wooden office in the temporary buildings in the Green Park, controlled our magnificent mercantile it Joseph Maclay. Miss Janet Maclay came out to China as one of the British delegates to the World's Siudent Christian Federation Conference at Peking: her brother, Mr. Joseph Maclay, after having served in the Air Force and in the Navy in the North Sea, when the war was over returned to Cambridge and graduated last year. He spent the last eight months studying business conditions in America, especially as regards shipping and then he joined his sister in Peking, and together they came down to "Heaven Below" and delighted us all_with their cheerful presence and charming ways.
On Saturday the athletic sports of the medical students and male nurses, 70 in all, of the C.M.S. Hospital and Medical Training College took place. The weather was all that could be desired for this time of the year and a perfectly splendid "afternoon was spent. There was some excellent sport und the events were all hotly contested. After the last event, everybody gathered round the temporary grandstand and Miss Maclay presented the prizes to the [lucky winners.
The great war brought with it sadness and sorrow into Mr. and Miss Maclay's home, as their two elder brothers laid down their! lives for King and country—one in France and one in Gallipoli—and, of; in memory of them, Sir Joseph Maclay has given Dr. Main £10,000 to rebuild the medical school. We invite all to come and see for te Its first duty was to transport 70 tons of rice, done up in sacks, from a godown in the Oon-cession to the railway station, from. whence it was sent up to relieve distress in north Anhui.
The wheat has all been harvested now and timely rains have fallen which will facilitate the planting out of the new rice crop. Further up the canal, there has been such a long spell of dry weather that the bean practically dried up. It is hoped that with the recent fall of rain the Indian corn crop will make geod progress.
Water in the northern section of the canal is very low, and it is with difficulty that launches run as far as Tsingkiangpu.
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