The sixth biennial conference of the National Medical Association of China is to be held in Shanghai next week, and it is an event which may} be looked forward to with considerable interest. However other movements founded upon Western principles have developed in China, there can be no doubt of the thorough conscientiousness those taking part in the doings of the National Medical Association, and the names to be seen among the list of its officers are a guarantee of the high ideals animating its members. "The conference is to sit from February 16 to 22, and will be attended by qualified physicians from all parts of China who will meet for an interchange of ideas! and to hear the experience of their Standing Committee, importuned by ill-balanced advisers, felt that it ought to do something, did not Know what to do and' therefore inevitably made a mess of thing: Apart from all other considerations, there is the broad and safe principle} jon aries ought to keep out of polities. Indeed Mr. Lechmere Clift, writing a few days ago from the south, gave it as the opinion of not a few that missionaries should even not run schools but should confine themselves to preaciting and teaching religion. Our articles on this subject and the recent canvassing by the National] Christian Council have brought us 9 large number of letters from missionaries in all parts, all strongly deprecating any attempt to meddle with what the Extraterritoriality Commission is doing. To-day a Honan correspondent tells us that the United Church of {Canada Mission in that province at 'a recent conference passed the following resolutions:
(2) That in regard to Extrater, riiorialits, Foreign Ooricessions, "and Tari' Autonomy, these are all issues That, more intimately concern foreign Fesidents other than missionaries amd a Mission we do not consider that University, arrived in Shanghai yesterday from Europe after a lengthy tour and is staying at the Burlington Hotel. Dr. Tesi was! accompanied by his bride and "Mr. Chen Ting, son of the Civil Govern. or of Kiangsu, Mr. Chen Yi-tao.
Gen, Wang Kuei-lin, Commissioner-General of Kiangsu Police, has tendered his resignation on the plea that he is too ill to carry on. Maral Sun Chuan-fang has decided to accept Gen. Wang's letter and to appoint another man in his place. Gen, Wang has served under four Tuchuns and three different political administrations and is considered to be one of the most capable police officers in the country.
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