Yesterday there was a monster meeting on the Yenwuting, there} being fully 15,000 soldiers and perhaps not fewer students and! spectators present. The occasion was a memorial service for the dead who fell in the fighting this; spring at Chengchow between Gov-' ernor Chao's men and the Eleventh Division—or at least that fragment of the Division left.to represent it There had been a big meeting in' Chengchow for a similar purpose some time since, under non-Christian auspices, but this was very distinctly Christian in all but) some of the expressions used in the oration. The Governor was to have been present to deliver the main address of the day, but so far he Las not returned from the military \parley in Paoting. Thus it was that Brigadier-General Li Ming-chung, of the forces stationed at Kueitehfu, wag here to represent)
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.