The foregoing may be supplemented from my own personal knowledge of two cases in two other hsien districts where country lads were taken: of these one managed to escape; the other, a cripple, was compelled, to travel several days with the other recruits until at last an officer, more humane than some, sent him back tome.
If Kweichow is but a sample of what goes in throughout the province one is afraid that the common people can hardly be expected to show much enthusiasm in the national cause against Japan, a friendly interest in the original station at Cloncurry conducted by the Australian Inland Mission.
Should the project to equip a sixth base at Alice Springs be realized, practically the whole of the sparsely populated areas of Australia will be brought within flying range of doctor and a hospital The magnitude of the task is illustrated by the fact that scattered over his E itary. which is equal to one-third of the entire continent, is a mere handful 1 of 25000 white inhabitants.
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