Tenghsien, Sung., Apr. 11, is blessed just now who is hot after unself dares to leaves tke yamen for investigations in the country. He has succeeded in capturing a umber of them and many. have been beheaded. He has returned to first principles and hangs heads upon the city gates. All four gates fare' thus adorned at present, With as many as three heads over one A. small village of about 200 inhabitants resisted the robbers but was finally taken and, to make an example of them men, women and children were murdered to the number of over 180. We have on good authority. the prowess of one man. He was' in a gun-tower, with two guns and a partner who kept, the rinsed gua loaded for him" This Jone man kept at bay 806 bandits Sand killed suffelent to scare them away.
North Kiangsu and most of, the Bus lines are very popular
larger places, have this blessing when the roads are dry. A journey that requires two and a half days by mule cart can be made in seven hours by bus and takes only four hours in a closed Ford sedan. We enjoyed the comfort of the latter and, while we left a trail of old Yellow River bottom sand a half-mile long in our rear, we knew not.
The coolies, wheel-barrow men and travellers are quick and polite to give way for the motor car with out delay, but the paycholony'of the Dative is well evidenced in the eros ing of the road when they hear or ce the Tachine. "Ninety out of one hundred must view it from the opposite side of the road. This means. careful drivers, for any [speed would of necessity cause an accident.
In travelling in the interior, both in Kiangsu and Shantung, one. is surprised to find how gun-to wwe bess erected la the ars. The smaller villages tone and the larger two or more. They add to the beauty of the land-ape, reminding one of the European castles as they are built with square tops and" of grey brick, though an occasional one is seen of sun dried clay bricks.
When one considers the poverty of the people and the enctmous expense involved in building these towers and the necessity for them, tone truly longs for the day when a [stable government will be establish-
In our travels we were pleased to visit a hospital in the interior of North Kisngsu. Kala-Azar is the hospitals is receiving worldwide recognition, for thousands of dollars are spent annually for the medicine used in its treatment and the results are wonderful. © Wounded soldiers are also treated by scores, though they require the aid of skilled surgeons, The young doctor who is in charge is receiving a salary exactly one-sixth of what he was, offered if he would remain at home. Truly heroes still live! A Western trained Chinese doctor was taken by bandits. He was called out at night, purporting to sce a patient, and" was kidnapped, but_he made his escape eventually. The treatment he received was so cruel that hho says now he fears neither death nor devil, his only fear being that hho may again be kidnapped, from the West could be gradually diminished, It was recently reported that Chinese workers at Chiaotso demonstrated in favour of some of the foreign and Chinese staff of the Fu Chung Corporation. An interesting comment on this was evidence as I passed through Hsin-hsiang a few days ago. The posts at the station were partly covered with various posters, urging. the people to boycott the Fu Chung Corporation, and different phrases were used, all with the object of trying to persuade the people not. to buy the products of the Corporation. The general impression among focal people is that thig does not mean a recrudescence of anti foreignism, but merely the jealous; of certain local Chinese competitors, possibly inciteg by the Tang Pa in [ko the district.
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