As tke end of the lunar draws nig there is an increase of theft and rob: bery. Not long ago two or three soldiers held up a sliver shop at nigh at the end of revolvers, and got away with silver trinkets amounting {To about $200. The men were can! and two of them shot, and the shopman rewarded with $100, "Even vegetable gardens are being robbed at night. The unusually cov and wet weather has made vegetables scarce and expensive, so that while in other years vegetables were {90 cheap and common to steal, this year even these are lable to theft.
Schools are closing this week for the winter holidays and the Siangtan middle school also closed early in tts week. Tre school has been running in the old Presbyterian boys school buildings for more than six years But their now plant is nearing completion and the next term will sec them in their new quarters. The Presbyterian boys school buildings will be repaired and it is toped tha. they will be occupied in the Autumn. by a higher primary department a well og some extra classes in Englis and mathematics.
The Ichi School, which occupied this compound before the Red upjrisinge in 1927, is the oldest senior middle school in the province. There fre students who studied and gra nated from Ichi all over this prov ince and in many other provinces.
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