Great Preparation for Active Campaign Effectually Defeated Both By Government and Students Themselves:, Authorities on the Alert: Poor Patriots Fox: Our Own Kaifeng, Honan, Dec. 28. suredly there is no province in the whole of China where the pure For the past month there have been active preparations made by snd approved fruits of Christianity, exemplified in sympathy and 'Nhe militant section of the Students' active efforts to mitigate the hor-Union to carry out the threatened tors of great calamities in the lives programme of the anti-Christian of millions of sufferers, have been group as outlined in the July) announcement. A week ago more apparent than in' Honan, the students would think of th definite angouncements> from the local executive were sent out to all [things it is inconceivable that they ithe schools including the: Mission could carry on any persecution against those who! are true schools asking for definite support patriots, and lovers of the poor. for the week of anti-Christian propaganda, Decem} 28, Teachers on Strike for Pay The local plans were that in The students have other causes every school there should be two Jof trouble in these days. On two groups of zealots organized, Eroup. And. from the "Winter propaganda group ani or fon recently, against the of-occasions their teachers have beea
ficial whose duty it should be t> Solstice for the whole of the ansu-_ provide funds to carry on the work ing week both at the mission jeentres and the mission schools! of education and to pay the aries of the teachers. A few and also on the streets every effort. the authorities eventually should be made to meet the "cult-promised to pay salaries in silver ural invasion" of the nation, dollars and not in the depreciated Authorities on the Alert Honan Bank paper currency. This Not knowing how far troubles money has now fallen 60 per cent, might extend if they were once and the situation has been in-start the authorities, both civil and tolerable for a long time, The military, took steps to forestall any, teachers now have the final promise breach of the peace. Interested after much effort, and it remains friends of Christians, dwelling to be soon if it can be carried out. within the various government The promise was silver schools, warned their acquaintances. two paper notes for one dollar. of what was pending, but at the The latter may be kept, and then id that the extreme the question as naturally arises, things how long the paper will remain in their own way, even in the schools. the, same ratio?
The fact is that religious persecu-Confidence has been failing so tion is not popular, and again there rapidly recently: that the author-are very many now who know from. ities had to do something to main-personal experience what Christ-some integrity for their chief ianity has done and what it is. In fountain of supply. The expedient the minds of these men, both hit upon by the Finance Commis among the students and their me sioner and the Provincial Bank, was structors there has been every, periodically ta declare certain reason to moderate, if possible, the numbers of notes that.on stated extreme views of the over-zealous. times would be exchanged at par Thus when the police and military for silver. The two offices of Com-guards took their places in the usual missioner of Finance and Manager resorts of the students, and in the Jof the Provincial Bank are such precincts of the various missions, difficult ones to hold that there are [there was really little to control. a8 many changes in these billeta Tt is true that so far as the as in the Ministry of Finance in was concerned there partial declaration of Filled with Wounded Troops and they were for-hidden to parade or assemble in com.
Kaifeng city is filled with wound-panies, while they were not idlers.—'Theso poor fellows prevented from carrying out their deen returned "from the milder activities of preaching and Shantung area, and are said to number well up to 3,000 While many of the wounded are there has been nothing of an now in a pitiful state on account offensive nature from the students, of inadequate attention, the really more than the pasting of bills on desperate cases could not be moved mission properties within the city, Honan: thus speculations as to and the rather scurrilous attack on ithe probable numbers of casualties the person of Jesus....the old one in that one sector always end in among the student and Bolshevik: a doleful shake of the head. circles, of Jesus being the illegitiis freely rumoured that there was mate son of a Roman soldier. treachery too: those.who were Zealous But Mistaken sympathizers of the' 'Yangtze 'Valley coalition were interested in 'These attacks proceed from more seeing a defeat for the Hono lor less pure motives, on the part forces. Thus the apparent débdele Jof the students, who' take part in of the Honan forces. them. One covets their zeal for Reports from the northwest the growing body of Christian frontier tell us that the Wuan students now. Their attacks arg hsien is filled with the returned inspired by the apparent threat, troops of Fang Chung-hsin, who from the ever-increasing Christian have been driven out of Shansi, by following, and they do not know!
Governor Yen's men, These ' re-[that there is nothing to fear, but ports continue that the people are Jeverything to gain from the Chris-suffering terribly from these extian sanction and principle. Most bandit troops,
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