Very few High North: schools i ern Kiangsu, nan or Southern SI to function at all, Practically alt have been looted of their furniture and school equipment and sulfere? considerable damage in the bu ings themselves; others have fai their whole plants are i utter wreck; fore teuchers and administrators are for the most part on furlough and the Chinese stulT_ is scattered to the four winds; finally the calamities of wars and famines have so impoverished the people that many former students will he forced to drop out.
What the educational men think of the situation is not known, but their brethren the evangelists are very largely of the opinion that the time isnot yet for any move toward reconstruction of the Wigh Since the above was written news has come of the closing of the Hangchow Christian College, by the home trustees. Frequently heretofore we have seen Home Boards inclined more sympathetically to a policy of patient toleration than the met te on the feld.
hin closing of Hangchow College indication that such patience is being exhausted. vitals Slightly Better Medical work is a shade Tess discouraging. In quite a few places the marauding soldiery have seen that hospitals for their wounded were @ necessity and some of them have been spared. For those Chie nese doctors and nurses who have stood faithfully by their work during these trying times there is noth: ing but the highest praise. Some were unable to stand the strain of the trials they had to endue and fated out of the picture, Others have hung on with remarkable zeal, tact and courage preserved their hospitals from looting and from soldier occupation and rendered life-saving: services to the very soldiers who looted and wrecked the mission properties at their right! and left.
There were many strange spec-tades and none more incongruous than that of a soldier loaded down with loot from a missionary home applying for and receiving free medical aid from the mission hospi tal; a good typewriter belonging to the author or his neighbour was brought into our hospital and set down while the looter was being served. One of the doctors sug-}gested that he should leave it there for its owner but he was careful to take it away, Probably a third of the hospitals in the district mentioned above will be open some during the fall,
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