The Bureau of Development at Wuchang has at last realized that the old method of letting outgoing passengers swarm on to the ferry-bouts before the incoming passengers have disembarked is the eau most of the drowning fatalities the hulks. The Bureau is now in sting that each hulk shall De. provided with entrance and exit gangways, American Church Mission The American Church Mission is striving to recover its position in the local educational world. It is understood that the chief diiculty the hesitation of the Board in New York to accept the conditions nid down by the Bureau of Edueation, The Mission is, however, making arrangement for St, Hilda's at Wuchang and St. Lois! at Hankow to reopen and has invited the American staff to return. Boone also hopes to carry on as a Middle School, but "here is u feeling in Toco! business circles that so lon business houses are working with reclused staffs and Chinese schools are not looking f¢r teachers, the number of pupils trained should be strictly limited. One firm recently had well over a, hundred applicants for one vacancy on it staff, There ts evidently a plethora of English-speaking clerks in Hankow at present.
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