Dr. J. G. Schurman, the American Minister, who has just completed a trip through the Yangtze gorges, arrived here last Friday by the express on his way back to Peking and broke his journey here to visit the Lung Men cave temples and also to visit several American Baptist schools in Kaifengfu where he had been invited to give addresses to the students.
General Wu Pei-fu, having heard of his intention to visit Lung Men, had a special train waiting for Dr. Schurman at Chengchow on Friday afternoon which arrived in Loyang in the evening. The staff officers and bodyguard of the 3rd Division met the train at Loyang and extended General Wu's invitation to Dr. and Mrs. Schurman to make his private residence their headquarters and their base for the trip to Lung Men. Captain A. St. C. Smith, American Naval Attache, who accompanied Dr. Schurman on his return journey was giver quarters in the garrison offices so that he could have an opportunity to study the routine of a Chinese military establishment. General and Madame Wu entertained the party at dinner on Friday evening, held a review in their honour the following morning and accompanied them to Lung Men in the afternoon, travel-Jing in a fleet of motor cars over General Wu's new motor road, Which has been completed as far aq Lung Men and will be extended to Sunghsien in the spring and which in due course will reach the Hupeh border and provide the first line of communications into a notorious bandit country. General Wu is a great believer in the civilizing and pacifying effect of communications. On Saturday evening all the officers of the 3rd Division gave a dinner and reception to Dr. Schurman and Captain Smith. The following morning General Wu put his private car at Dr. Schurman's disposal for the journey to Kaifeng. The American Minister will return here tomorrow and proceed at once to Peking.
CHAO CHIEH'S TROOPS, While Dr. Schurman was in Loyang an opportunity was afforded to discuss informally the problem of securing the release of the two American missionaries held by; the bandits and now believed to be in the mountains less than 50 miles south of Loyang. Genera] Wu explained, what is now conceded throughout the province, that the forces which captured and held the American missionaries anid the French engineers were not the ordinary "'tu-fei" of the Honan mountain districts, but the defeat-
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