Free Fight of Workmen, Firemen and Police From Our Own Correspondent, Hangchow, Apr. 5.
Yesterday afternoon nder Nansinchiao there was a house on fire and the firemen were doing their duty when a raw railway apprentice stepped on the water hose, which led to words and then to blows which were dealt out freely by hands, feet, sticks, ete., with the j result that a few were nearly killed and seven had to be carried in an__ exhausted condition to the M. S. Hospital for treatment, where six were retained. Fifteen of the policemen were taken to hospital this morning and four of them who were badly bruised and cut about the head and face were taken in and the rest had their wounds dressed and sent home.
The Assembly has devoted. $300 to each family of the students who died through the Normal School arsonic poisoning tragedy.
The Civil Governor is appealing to the Chekiang people in Peking tv uso their influence with the authorities so that Anhui and Kiang-ssu rice may not be prohibited from entering Chekiang.
Hotelkeepers in the City have been asked not to receive Japanese guests.
Four more motor-car accidents yesterday—This is becoming a grave business!
Apr. 8.
The Assembly is trying to do a little work and Mr. Chang Lob-lin is anxious that something should be done for women, so that they can stand on their own feet—which are now standable—and not have to lean. too much upon men. He says there ought to be definite manufacturing industries for women in Hangchow.
The Assembly has asked the Civil Governor to get a move on in overcoming the tufei in the Pro-
An official, Mr. Song, has just arrived from Peking to investigate the special tobacco tax which was recently imposed upon the smokers, the sellers not being affected, for the making of good roads.
There have been so many motor car accidents lately on Linyin road that running for the present has been suspended.
Apr.
Mr, and Mrs. A. D. Main have gone home for the nine months' holiday, after nearly 10 years' service. a The beauty of Hangchow just now is beyond description. Yesterday,; when passing over the hill where C.M.S. has several homes for consumptives, lepers, etc., I was enchanted by the wisteria, judas tree, deutzia, lilac, azaleas, tulip tree, roses, apple blossom, double peach, kerria, tree peony, wild syringa, wallflower, and double cherry, all flowering in the open air—a glorious sight.
Fermentation is still going on regarding the 21 Demandg and I suppose an explosion will follow unless the cork is loose.
Apr. li.
The Buddhist priests of Mi-do-z. Temple have been engaged from the 13th instant to say prayers for the dead students of Normal School for one week.
A small boat on the lake was upset yesterday, because it was overloaded, the boatman being anxious to make. hay while the sunshines and the pilgrims being numerous. The lake being very shallow where they were upset, no one was drowned, all of them, with assistance, being safely hauled out of the mud in the course of time.
The members of the O.M.S. in Mid-China are meeting here this week for the half-yearly conference.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.