Church Mission, senior missionary in Kaifeng, responded most heartily. On behalf of the twenty-odd missionaries present, he assured them and Mr. Liu of the eagerness of the missionary Jes to do everything in their power ce-operate in every genuine effort to uplift the people morally and spiritually as well as economically and educationally.
'A committee, representative of the five missions present, was mediately formed to ce-operate with Mr. and Madame Liu in their efforts to make the New Life Movement more effective in Honan.
Tt was a disappointment that Mar~ shal Chang Heueh-liang, who had accompanied the party on the northwest four, owing to preseing duties, returned to Hankow and so did not come to Kaifeng. His friends were [somewhat solaced to lear from his Hforeign adviser, Mr. Donald, that the 'Young Marshal is in excellent health and enthusiastically undertaking. his work' in Central China. hie Generalissimo's large aeroplane Jarrived in Kaifeng simultaneously with the train, and after dipping in salute, landed in preparation to tak. ing the party on.by air to Tsinan in the morning. Mrs. Anderson, the
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