We have a new High School for both boys and girls, but rules are very strict and are only together class rooms. All are taught English. We have also a new High School with Normal training.
A North gate has been opened and called the "Chang Shan-Aten." Opium is being suppressed, no foot-bidding allowed and anyone burning incense can be fined. The large Confucian Hall is being put order and will soon be occupied by the Suchien Government Hizh School. There are already over 100 pupils in it. The principal is a Chinese young lady, I understand, educated in Peking though originally from the South.
The city walls are still intact as} the people would not allow the soldiers to demolish them. The country people are busy planting their wheat.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.