The Rev. Il. W. K. Sandy is still in the hands of the Tayeh communists, but word has come from him that he is provided with some lething and sometimes gets nea the fire, He is not allowed to say where he is, and his servant is not allowed 10 sce him. The soldier sco to have settled down at SI
Yuiyao on the river-bank and there seems to be no mandarin at Faye and no official in Hankow able to sical with the case. The snow is again falling to-day and, whatever alleviations Mr, Sandy may have secured, his plight must be a very serious one. ute from the "Japan Chronicle":, Many residents Japan who remember Mr. ES. Wilkinson when he represented the North China Insurance Company in "Kobe and Yokohama will be interested to learn that he has written a Pook called "Shanghai Birds," a study of bird life in Shanghai and the surrounding. districts. Tt is pleasantly written in easy English, and excellently illustrated with 23 cloured plates.
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