The number of tax. bureaux increases daily. Even small parcels arriving through the Post Omice are of exempt, the amount of tax levied frequently exceeding the value of the contents of the parcel. We foreigners here will soon have to forego any= thing in the form of a foreign manufactured article, and become reduced to blue cotton gowns for wear, and rice and samshu for food and drink The tax bureaux insist on a fantastic sum as deposit before releasing goods with which they are unfamiliar, pend-Ing investigation as to the nature and composition of the goods.
This autumn we are seeing quite a number of changes in the personnel of the port. An additional doctor has come to the new Canadian mission hospital which has just been opened on the Lungmen-hao side of the river. This hospital isa huge building, situated on a hilltop at the bend of the river opposite the Tungshul Men.
is equipped in a most modern and uptodate manner, and has accomoda~ ton' for '60 patients, including ae commodation for foreign cases. There been considerable discussion regarding the amalgamation of this hospital with that of the America Syracuse Mission but no decision fag yet been reached, a5 far as the writer has heard. A good number of mission families and single workers have returned from furlough this month, full of enthusiasm for their work in schools and hospitals.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.