In July last, for the first time 15 months, a party of seven missionaries of the United Church of Canada were able to re-visit war-tom North Honan, As only fragmentary accounts of their investigations have appeared in the press it seems desirable that a fuller statentent, drawn from the official report, should be given to the was somewhat of a surprise, fon the $50 mile journey southward from Peking, to find that so many important bridges and' water-tanks had been thoroughly dynamited by the retreating Fengtien troops. The train had slowly to crawl over many tenipertury wooden structures, not all of which have been able to withstand the summer floods. Wrecked rs way stations also featured those vicinities in Honan where some of the struggles of the past year took place.
Upon reaching their objective, the party divided into three sections, and personally investigated condi-tious at Changteh, Wethwei, Huai-king and 'Taokou,' finding them, general, as indicated below:—
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