Back in the city again after being away for a month, the first impression is that no other place in the whole country is as hot as it is in this capital of Honan. And the second one is that the process of park and playground-making has. gone on apace. I should suppose that very few other cities are as rich in these pleasure-giving _conveniences, as our capital city. These parks and play-grounds ace being made into real beauty spots, where formerly all was gray and drab. And they must be costing the civic authorities a goodly sum of money too, as in many cases old buildings have to be torn down, and fancy walls of the new compounds built, and much new material used in the making of the play appliances. The third impression that comes, without thought at all, is that Kaifeng is looking forward to a continuance of the present réyine, and making all ready for a continued era of construction, and therefore of prosperity, The Thousands of Wounded The city is at present still quite }full of wounded soldiers. These are nine hospital centres. In the: schools of the Baptist Mission there are well over a thousand wounded, Into the Vu Teh that Mission, the medical workers that Mr, Y. T. Moh Brought up with him, As' this group have a considerable sum of money with them this part of the Work has taken on a look of prosperity, that la not so apparent other groups. The China Inland Minsion, and the buildings of the Canadian Anglican Mingon Girls and Womens School buildings form the first Hospital Group of the Military work, and into this group come all the more desperately wounded, and those that need the finest skill of the doctors. The military authorities have expended considerable sums of money ju repairing the damages thut the loot. ing soldiery caused last year, and this group also has @ real hospital The third "Military Hospital groups is housed in the Boys' School igs of the Canadian Mission, hhere come all the sick from all the other hospital groups. At the present time Uhere must be some 800 Poor fellows suffering all kinds of diseases that are concomitant with the aftermath of warfare, Typhus, and typhoid are the present fearful epidemic diseases that the doctors have to combat and the number of qualified men available for this meritorious task in most assuredly not equal to the work they have to Teaining for Cripples There are at present, in the nine hospitals, fully 6,000 patients. There were a short time ayo, 8,000. But as they get well enough to be ent away from the hospitals here they are sent away (o one or another of the ten rest homes between here and Sinnfu. Marshal Feng has a very strong hold ever the affections his men in the way the sick and convalescent are looked after In these rest homes the men ing in some fit them for the lif ing, if they are crippled. IE they need but a rest they are soon sent back to the forces again, with a Kindly feeling for the care that hax been accorded them, Iw St. John's Cathedral, Mongo kong, on May 27 Lieut-Col. F. Mayley-Bell, oxo, unveiled a a tablet, with an inscription as follows: "To the memory of two officers and 25 other banks of the Second, the Queen's Royal ment, who died on active service China in 1860. Erected by all ranks First Battalion Queen's Royal Regiment while serving in China 1927-28." failure of the attempt. The great lesson the Chinese have to learn is that behind the soldier of every great nation is a universal moral and spiritual support which is their greatest equipment.
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