'The bluff of the students of the graduating class in the Chungshan. University's Middle School has been called, Submitting completely, without gaining any concession,—the students had to get down on' their knees and beg forgiveness.
'The seven class office: ox: pelled, and Chancellor, Chao Lu, would' have "fred" every classman' fad they not gone back to their studies, "Tt was not just to make an example of the seven simply because they happened to be the elected officers of the graduating class, the scholars pleaded, and the Chancellor wavered, and would have taken the seven back. But they were guilty' of publishing denunciatory and vil-tying statements at the very last, and 0 the order of expulsion stan For three days the classman were fon strike; when Chancellor Chao. promised to present' their arguments to the Commissioner of duration of praying, for rain, 'The Taoists of the city, indeed, have begun a seven-day prayer service where night and day petitions jate being offered. that the heavens may be opened and the crops be saved. Yesterday they may' have ight their prayers were being' answered, for the sky became overs cast and for an hour or two It rained 'a little, enough for the refreshment of growing plants, but a mere drop, the ocean of their needs.
The earth is dry, so dry that the prospect for crops is less than a year ago at this time. If present conditions continue, to say nothing of becoming worse, the small farmer can. Yok for nothing but ruin, As it there is destitution in many a home. In one place it is said that the people ere existing on grass roots cooked with a little four, while in another place people are reported to be try-{ing to keep life within them by eating, earth, Merchants in the towns and villages fear attacks by the destitute for loot, Feom Sz-an comes the story of people Gem the hills descending upon a large rice shop and helping themselves, Soldiers summoned, drive off the marauders, killing two. But such summary punishment will not deter others, for it is said that they might as well die by shooting as. perish slowly from starvation.
Typbus in a Jail Typhus fever, which raged through the Jails of Huchow not long ago, has lately been reported from Changhsing, a helen city, twenty miles northwest, An urgent all was sent to the Huchow General Hospital for aid, and was immediately responded to by Dr. Munget, who witty two assistants, Dr. Frau and Miss Glenn, and a car loaded with medicaments preceded to the city. Over fifty prisoners were found to be fil with the fey To an observer the conditions under which the prisoners were obliged to live seemed little less than shocking. The sick were kept in separate rooms, to be sure, but they lay on rough beds, side by side, with scarcely room for one to stand between them, The Jail, built over 100 years ago, when roper sanitary arrangements were hot considered, a mere collection of low, one-story' buildings, was evidently intended for 100 or 150. men. Deprecating the lack of tchness, the Jailer said that with over 300" pei-soners it was impossible for him to keep the jail as he would like. He added that there had been times when there had been many more prisoners, at one time as many 480." 'The physicians, each clothed from head (o foot and including thei fect in. a one-piece strong garment impenetratable by the tiny carriers of the fever, literally: waded in, and @isappeared among the waves' and billows of the sick. Their task seemed detestable, but their courage and enthusiasm most admirable, they relented and went on with their school work. But the Commissizner would not give in a particle, and' three days more the young men and women failed to meet their teachers.
Wang Lun-hsu, Commissioner Education, had given notice that the final examinations this term were to bbe given by his department, and all students of graduating classes from every school in the city would be obliged to sit for them. These! students from the Chungshan University raised all this fuss because in some respects what they study ts not the same as what is studied in oth schools. For that reason the qu tions prepared by the Department of Education would not be fair to them.
Cheap Transportation Passenger transportation in Kwang tung is cheap these days. Chinese beals plying between Canton anil Hongkong. were losing business to the s. Lee Hong, and for a while Jowest class passengers got thei. tickets for the small sum of te: cents either way. Since, then the Lee Hong has been withdrawn from this run, but cheapest tickets are stil! down as low as 40 cents, First class Lekets have dropped in price from $4 to $250. Only" the British line alone has failed to reduce its rates.
Improved railway service between Canton and Kowloon had been keeping many travellers off the ships Faster locomotives, more comfortable coaches, and the putting on of extra
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