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'The teachers' strike has been practically settled, chiefly through tion of 'Mr. Cheng Shih, of Hua Chung University. On Saturday, after the teachers' deputation had spent 'a night in the ante-room of the office of the Commissioner. of Finance, Mr, Cheng Shih together with several officials from the yamen met representatives of the teachers. After some discussion, it was agreed that the teachees? salaries should be raised, and that the increase should be paid from the 17th month of last year, the arrears of salary to be paid by the yamen, and the increase to be fond" by the Commissioner of Finance, It was promised that a etter announcing this promise would be printed and circulated femongst the teachers. Having agreed upon these terms, the teachers agreed to leave Mr. Yang's ante-room, leaving only one representative from each school to wait there until the letter was duly Since then, most of the schools have reopened. But the teachers have not quite made up their minds to whether they have really gain-edi what they wanted, or simply been hoodwinked once more. Some of them are apparently prepared to trust to the promise they have received, and to consider that their end hasbeen attained. Others would prefer to see the promises followed quickly by fulfilment in ard ind would like to keep up the agitation until something actually finds its way into their pockets. Meanwhile the military, Ingpired by the success of the teachers, and being in a similar position with large arrears of pay owing to them, are preparing to follow their example and like:
siege to the office of the Ca missioner of Finance, Altogether, position is, Tigers Swallowing and Wolves Devouring Tou Linn-chung is a little town in the north-eastern corner of Hupeh. Tt is near to the Honan border, and surrounded by mountains. For both these reasons, it is in a vicinity frequented by robbers, and for several years now it has. suffered yerlodically from robber-raids. The following translation of a letter from the Christian preacher in Toulinnchung gives a graphic description of the sufferings which clare endured by the people during these incursions. It is typical, not only of Tsulinnchung, but of many towns and villages throughout the Tength and breadth of China at present, Indeed, the enormous sum of trouble that' is being endured in the present times, mostly in silence, by the people of China is difficult to imagine or to describe. This letter tells the story more graphi. cally than it could be told by a foreign pen. It is rather badly written, with a good many corrections, and a little incoherent in parts—all signs of the genuine distress and mental disturbance of the writer. It should be prefaced that a tsi" is a rude stone wall built around the top of a hill, and so forming a rough kind of fortress, or refuge, but giving no shelter of xny kind from the weather.
"The robbers came to Tsulinnchung on April 12. The people in
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