Soldiers are pouring down river all the time—where to and what for? But nobody seems to care. They are secretly glad that this diminishes an ever pressing problem of how to feed the troops. A starving man with a gun is a difficulty. But the soldiers have behaved with remarkable rest-taint. Lu Fu-chang, the dashing" young military leader, has his men outside the city; and he remarked to a friend that even if the soldiers in Nanning did loot he would never let them get away with the stuff. Lu Yung-ting is getting an old man now. How to get Lin out of office he does not know. Meanwhile he is rebuilding his country seat at Moming, 34 miles away. which the Cantonese left with scarce one brick astride another. The political game is at "check" at present.
tha summer has been. extraordinarily hot and unhealthy, and crowds of sick have been glad to welcome back Dr. Clift. He has not yet been able to secure a site for a new hospital; and the patients filling his wards groan of the street noises outside. Occasionally he Buddhist nunnery opposite keeps "'an all night sitting" with tables set coe the street under the hospital windows, and musical instruments of all sorts playing. pandemonium. On~ off: nights the householders returning from the gambling houses and brothels bang heavily at all hours on their doors and yell for the slave girls fo open. No one in China cares a pin for anybody dac's sleep. Twice the Mission has almost secured land outside 3 but each time the villages have pro—tested to the authorities that a hospital compound would block the country paths and interfere. with the rambles of their buffalees. Everybody knows in these parts that a buffalo is worth a lot more than a man just now.
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