The wheat and bean crops "have been much retarded by the protected cold weather and there will be only about a 30 per cent. yield of both these important crops.
The Provincial Wusih Normal School has closed on account of an epidemic of meningitis among the students, One boy has died and the disease showed signs of spreading rapidly,"
In the absence, on leave, of Dr. John Gray of the Lester Institute, 54 who. generously held a urological cline monthly for St. Andrew' Hospital, Dr, P. T. Chen is acting.
By order of the Government, all pupils, and teachers, including prinelpals of senior middle schools are obliged to work on Sundays on a road being constructed between the New West Gate and Tuhyuan Road. 'The object of this conscription is to Jdiffuse Knowledge of the construction of military roads, as well as to make an object lesson in the dignity' Jot Labour, a lesson in which the older type of scholar was deficient, On account of the rise in the sill market, farmers are re-planting many of the mulberry fields which were destroyed and replaced by other ferops a few years ago.
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