The two Generals, Lin Wen-hui and Den She-heo combined and invited 38 foreigners to a semiforeign meal in a fine new three-storey mansion. Outside, while waiting, we visited the bird-house, with perhaps 50 or CE specimens, ' some very pretty and later Gen. Den instructed us in the art of archery. No arrow but the Generat's hit the target. Gen. Den is very free and talkative, while Gen, Liu is very versity seemed to be more than holding its own in general, but the Medical College had many students and few teachers ant the Dental College was closed. We were a little uneasy when we learned that the newly-appointed Principal of the First Provincial Middle School had been assaulted, bound, beaten, gageed, and thrown into a well. Following this outrage, 14 Communists were summarily executced and the others will scarcely try that plan again.
We found the big hospital of the United Church of Canada and a temporary women's wing almost full of patients, even during the New, Year. Here in Luchow we find the medical unit of the army occupy the church hospital in full, while the four-storey girls school of the mission is filled with a couple of hundred boys of the South Szechuan Normal School, Business seems to the boys school looking fine—the finest we had seen for many days. There are about seventy boys and ench had his piece of land or his bit {0 do, all which helped towards a self-suppering school The orange be normal. Gen. Den. has celebrated a birthday by a feast extending over a week. The city has somewhat recovered from the' long; and severe siege of a year ago.
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