(Medical supplies are badly needed here for wounded soldiers brought beck' from the front and hospitals at the rear are far from perfect. Visiting the hospitals, one would hear the cry: "The flies are on my face and I cannot go to s Varipus circles here are trying to do them best to help the wounded. Gen. Wang Che-min, Garrison Commander of the city, Mr. Fang Che, Civil Commissioner of the province and many other high officials visit the- hospitals from time to time. Even the prostitutes organize themselves as comforting corps and visit the wounded in hospitals, bringing mit, eggs, and biscuits. They hein them to change clothes and wi their faces, singing war songs to cheer them.
With the interrupted communic: tions, daily papers cannot be obterned from outports. At the begin ning of the month, the Provincial Government issued a circular order, instructing all government organs, schools and newspaper offices to use local. papers. made in Honan, for printing purposes. In this province, there' are 25. hsien where paper is made:
According to arrivals, the young wheat, north of the River, is healthy and a good spring harvest is e: pected. In Fengchiu, north of the Yellow River, as no chickens and seattle are left for them to eat. the Jepanese begin to kil the dogs. When meeting Chinese, according to report, they used to draw a circle, on the ground, in which they write the word' "die." It means that they penetrated too far into the interior of China and cannot return to their bomes. The Provincial Famine Relief Association recently allotted $40,000 to relieve the famine victims along the north bank of the Yellox.
River.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.