We are glad that our mail cons tinues to arrive regularly though @elayed. The "North-China Daily Nows" arrives four or five at a time and takes fifteen days or more on the road. We have once "more a foreign postal commissioner Shensi—Mr, F. 1. Smith was transferred here from Chungking just before Christmas and is hi asset the social life of our small for-ign community. Mr. and. Mrs. England of the Scandi AL ance Mission here just left for a well-earned furlough in America, Mr, England has done a ysrent work teaching and inspiring the Chinese church in this district and will The winter here was very dry but just when people were get line scious about the. wheat a heavy fall of snow at the beginning of March saved the situation. Since then two separate days of gentle rain have helped matters and the prospects for the harvest are oxcellent.
Th parts of the country bandits have been troublesome as they always are the local authorities are busy. with other things. On the main road to Lintang people have ly" for. several went {00 far and took i motor car which Kweiyang, Kwel., Mar. 26.
The bridge on. the Hwaklang be-(ween Anshun and Panhsion on the motor road to Yunnan hag fallen, some tens of people being drowned, {iis said, and the trame up and down being held up for the time being, stated that as 300 tanks are soon fo come from Yunnan on their way to the fighting line, the Central Government his sent orders for the immediate reconstruction of the bridge. and that the work is now being rapidly pushed forward. "As to the report of the tanks coming down, this ig merely street talk and may be quite untrue. There has been no mention in local dailies, so far.
There seems to be a decidedly more optimistic tone in the local papers as to the conflict with Japan, victory being spoken of ascertain, While this may be propaganda with a view fo" cheering the people, folks in general appear to think that there is, ood round for this attitude. Tu the meantime, everybody goes on with his, work much as usual and. government Aepartments continue to progress. in Plans for the extension' of public utilities:
At the same time, the preparation of bomb-proof shelters nees on. although many people think that enemy planes will not come here after "The authorities are certainly wise not to take any chances, but it open to doubt whether the shelters being prepared are really bomb-proof: time will show, should the planes 'The National Medical College, transferred from Nanking to Kuling and now to this city, Is to start its work in April, it is hoped, who Union' University (of Great hina and Fuhtan) is now the Great China University, the Fuhtan going to Szechuan, after all. Well, it is food for Kweichow 10 have 'a unie Versity at any. rate and everybody seems. to be sind. It means. that Kweichow students need not go 10 other provinces to get a university Work
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