lr-in-Chlet of the China Squadron, ax she lies "Admiral Sit Howard Kelly oboe On the way into Tachienlu, over a stretch of eight days, we saw evidence of what she had been doing. At different points, teashops. were decorated with artistic Chinese posters depicting different Scriptural incidents. Along this great highway into Tibet from China many people were interested in the old lady who could not speak much Chinese apar from the sentence "Ne ("Do you recognize'
The river running through the! heart of the city is still pouring a tecmendous amount of water towards the coast, Tachienlu has had a terribly wet summer and the river is still high for this time of the year. The road in from Yachow has suffered considerably. argl, in many places, is completely wathed away, Walls in the city have tumbled down and others are ina. dangerous condition. A mad lama has taken up his residence on a cliff overlocking the city and this poor fellow is blamed for the amount of water that has fallen during the past summer. If he could have seen' Hankow and the terrible havoc caus-by the floods and the terrible misery of the thousands of sufferers, the mad lama would no doubt have: sent sunshine instead of rain. Again, it seems unfair to accuse him of having brought all this distrucalong the Yangtze Valley. The 1a merely covets the quietness of his own soul and the desire to live [hi rt from the world with all its strife and madness. He no doubt: would be very much surprised. if} anyone told him he was responsible for the terrible destruction that has taken place in Central China,
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