Tokyo, Apr. 25.
The supplementary budget submitted to the Diet totals Yen 3 000,000.
The expenditure includes mere education and the prenotion of national industry and funds for the Banditry is rife north of the Wei River, The other day they tode off a Roman Catholic priest, foreigner, and said that they. were unfortunately in need of money and would release him for $1,500. At night, however, in the robbers" eave hho got up when he heard them all snoring, opened the door and escaped, He has since gone down with typhus a5 a result of contact with other inmates of: the bandits? den, In shire of distressing. conditions there are some signs of progress. Gur rieshamen are now numbered on the back, hundreds of bicycles are being ridden in the city, and the motor buses -between here and Tungkuan are more numerous. and of a better type, Our great need is for peace, and that seems far away. One of the leading genorats in Shensi told some missionaries the other day:—"We military men hava really no face at all before: you foreigners. Our country goes. t0 rain while all the time we: fight among ourselves. How can we expect to avoid famines and obtain the blessing of God when we, jum as we do?" If more of those in Mh places would really eonfese hele faults and really try to put things straight where they them selves have influence, there waild bbe hope of better days.
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