The woollen mill looks tragic in its oneliness, and rueful in its rust, Tt used to turn out 90,000 yards of loth a month till 1927. was the year Feng and his horde arrived They did many things in this city of Lanchow but among the worst Wwas the stoppage of this mill. The machinery is Belgian and bears the date of 1908, A couple of Belgians used to operate it with a Chinese staff, 'The Belgians and the workers fed before the fury of Feng. The ollers left so hurriedly that' not a Grop of oil was put on the equipment, {tis frozen fast_ now. "When Generalissimo Chiang Kat-shek and Marshal Chang Hsiao-liang went along to look at the ruin the enterprising originner contrived to get one boller. going and greased the creaky earings of the shafting until he was able (0 set, it in motion. When the party. reached.the milla piercing Blast of welcome was blown on the whistle and it looked as if it was going to keep on shrieking til the fires died, for the valve resented the awakening and refused to cease Work till wrenches relieved it, The clanking of the shafting, the grunt. ing and groaning of the reluctant belie over the defunct dust-covered and rust embellished machines, reminded one of a man whose flesh is dead "but" whose spirit continues hopefully to strive. Sooner or la that mill will be operating again, but to be hoped that new machinery will be secured rather than " that much money be spent on an attempt to revive those rusted bones.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.