Along the main road south of the river, the cities there present a heartrending sight, lis possible, shops everywhere " destroyed, everything possible looted. At Welnan where the fighting last-for three weeks, the people are left without grain, bedding, anything, even the straw mats" which covered the brick beds were taken. save where people were sleeping: fon. parts of broken Wangs (brick ikeda) broken by the looting soldiery their search for silver. 1 saw two of our churches in ruins a the soldiers needed the doors, windows to cook their food. In Jone of these even the soldiers came with their loads of loot and der ed storage on the mission premises, but fortunately there our caretaker had the graces of persuasion and fidelity. T met an ex-colporteur on the street dressed in a fairly decent suit made of native cotton, and he told me, in a whisper, that he had preserved this by getting his mother to wear it under her own.
Ttis said that in Woman alone, over a million dollars worth of goods were taken from the shops.
Twenty-two thousand cash in. paper can be obtained for a dollar, while the copper cash changes for 4,600: the weight of the latter is about 30 pounds.
Drought prevails, the wheat has niven a very poot yield, the cotton is exceedingly backward, the millet cannot be sown, and the prospects are in every way dark. We on the other hand thank the Lord for every day as it passes in peace and without the roar of guns.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.