Chengtu, July 9.
Consul-General, Mr. Major, favoured: us last week with a brief visit from Chungking by car. He stayed at the home of Mr. F. Dickinson, and on Tuesday afternoon met the' British community at a lawn social, We were all glad to meet Mr. Major and talk over with him some Jocal problems. This is the Consul-General's first visit to Chengtu and he was accorded a genuinely warm reveption, About the same time the American Consul from Hankow also Visited Chengtu to the delight of the American residents, and spent some time visiting historic places. While the Consular officials were here a feast was held at the university when Marshal Liu Hsiang and leading officials attended and tendered their felicitations, The university has closed for the summer holidays and among other activities the students put on a Student Summer Conference at the beautiful Lung Cifang Temple about 0 It from Chengtu. This temple dates from the Tang Dynasty and is stocked with art treasures of both Ming and Ching Dynasties. It is one of the few temples unmolested by soldiers, the reason being that the temple is surrounded by tempestuous streams making it tactically insecure for sold-{ers attacked from the outside, This a blessing and a rarity her'
The conference was ce-educational and was a rural retreat where the students studied in the morning and then in the afternoons went among the farmers distributing modern health and agricultural literature, teaching their children to play games and with doctors and nurses attending to the needs of the people. Two young Chinese doctors, graduates of the Union University, a dental and a medical practitioner attended to over 1,000 cases during the week. Dr. Dai, the dentist, extracted 30 teeth after reaching at the Sunday morning ser-vie in Hsintan,
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