(Continued from pie 303) nly one automatic between: us, which the owner, although relicly to shoot, fortunately did. not. fre, 'The 'e" perience, demonstrates one. should either take "many, weapons alonit Which' really represent. 'a' factor,""oF nione at all, (for the one we had wag, of course, gladly taken away), 'Ther Point. of Kidnapping was vaguely discussed but abandoned, "We have reason to suppose. this' was partly due to the financial result be-Ing. considered satisfactory. 'This. shows it is good not to take too tittle money along. Also we found our robbing visitors' pleased with every tile discovery' made inv the: various pockets, and it might be 'a contribu tion towards satisfying them if money scattered all over the pockols and new and interesting ridings can thus be made, Having Mnished. thiolr robbery the whole, gang disappeared as suddenly as they had come, in the mountain medley of! Chinfoshan, leaving us. contemplate the "fact that this mountain, which we had found 50 Ideal from many a viewpoint, was deal also from the viewpoint: of robbery.
Telumphal Arches Apout noon we struck the junction of the highway from Hunan which had "been followed. by the Nanking party who were two days ahead. From here on all the towns and villages we passed through? were decked with flags, and'at the entrance fof each was crocied a triumphal arch of evergreens with streamers of white cloth on which the words of welcome black or red had become effaced by the rain.
We arrived. in Kueiyang shortly after five, having. been nine hours on the road in steady rain, When I slopped out of the car I reeled about just es if T had come off a bad Chi hel crossing, owing 10" the continual twists and turns of the road and the eternal switchbacking. "The run from Shanghai to Kueiyang (vid Kueilin)
1,800 miles.
'Tur Rev. A. W. Spillett, a missionary from China, was one of the speakers at the annual Assembly the English Baptist "mission, held at. Manchester, Inst "month, He gave impressions arising from "six years'. experience. in Shansi, Chinese culture and' wisdom Were, so lo appreciated at" home, he said, but when It was the. West would' have "a "different approach, China: had for the past-Tfteen years. been in a state of national: rebirth, National independence was growing, and this.constitited "a challenge to the menace. of Japan. Spiritually too China was experiencing' a. revival as was seen in the attempts' to restore Confucianism" and provide a. moral basis for the State. "In his pellet the Confucian doctrine was inadequate to fave China the rar eae the help she needed, easier has would
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