When they left the station Govern ment. trucks gathered their effects from their camping grounds on the station area, and took them back to their respective schools. The Commissioner of Education had been away from his ofice for some time preceding this outburst, but the Governing Council put out an order that schools were to be dismissed for the winter holiday, as from January This order was promulgated at the end of December, and as all schools China Buys Big Supply of U.S. Mur Now word comes again to this capital ity of Honan, that hie has come out of Suiyuan, across: Shanst, the Northwestern part of the province, with a following of not 2,000 Your correspondent enquired anxlousty as to. the source fof this body of men, and was formed that "No doubl they recruited outside the Great Wall."
The people of the Hvveihsien area tare ayaity very anxious for the safety of their homey and fortunes, for Liv "piaeke. Seve) his nickname seems to be as black as that appettation would ceseribe him. The local papers have made no mention of his ing i the province again, and one wonders what the authorities are {0 the present authorities of Ho =a worl of appreciation is in den, Lin Chih had been Chan of the province for well that he was Commi of Monan Anhwei, This, promo~ tion was (o make a place for the present. Chairman, Gen. Shani Chen, who comes to his'presont ames, with 4 very good reputation.
Your correspondent has had the pleasure of meeting and talking at considerable Yength with the new Chairman, and feels the spelt of his Horsonality, ay others have felt it. Generals Liu and Shang are not Christian, but one feels: that were jesus to meet them and talk over the fairs of the province and country might infor that "They are not far from the Kingdom of Heaven,' for both men are assured that it meeds the Spirit of Christ to grapple ith present day problems, in such a Was to make solutions possible.
Gen, Liu has been fortunate in having and holding several Christians in the highest offices in the province, and it seems to be the determined polley of Gen. Shang Chen, that these food officials shall remain, and continue to carry on the same enlightened policy for the wollfare of the people and the province, One may remark in passing that' both Gen, Lit and Gen, Shang are not ashamed to be soon night after night At direct evangelistic meetings.
Watchman Ni Toh-sheng of Shang-thei was In the city for ton days, and had the priveloge of addressing pick-audiences, of which the two high-fest placed oMelals of the province were a part. Tu this connection, one draws the inference that there Isa very noticeable turning of the hearts and minds of people to spiritual things in this city now.
Washington, Feb, Figures released by the State Department reveal that large purchases of aeroplanes, machine uns and bombs were made last hhonth in the United States by China.
The consignments to China dur-were to have January first to third, the New. Year intermission, it food that schools were practically dissolved from the day the order went out.
There. was w movement to rebel against this order and to remain in the schools, but the Nanking presentative seemed to assure the
the Central Government was nol fast of the students that ing to do the thing they feared, and so wiser counsel prevailed (and all Students went hone. Now they ure returning to the lly again for th opening of the spring term and, hopes, to more settled courses study, Old friends of the Rev. Mondon arris and Mrs, Harris are very happy to welcome them and three of their seven children with them, back to Kaifeng and their work fu the Southern Baptist Mission, after ton sence from China. On a Saturday afternoon, nearly all the missionaries of the city met the home of Mrs. Sallee, for s social and prayer hour to make a united demonstration of their feelings of] Weleoine to these old friends.
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