Wuchang, May 27.
The health campaign for the sum~ mer of this year was begun recently with a big meeting at which there were representatives of many ganizations, private and public. The New Life Movement group is taking a leading part, The frst days of the campaign are being devoted to street cleaning; little squads of policemen are going round sweeping up and disinfecting. Films teaching the ways to prevent diseases are also to be shown publicly.
The work which is being done on the roads still seems to occupy a large share of public interest and the energies of the provincial government. The plans for the future of the city are being elaborated, and if they are carried out, there will soon be little of old Wuchang left, The Long Street in its widened form is nearly completed. It is to be paved with conerete, Most of the new streets are only metalled without tar or conerete, so that they soon wear out and are' very dusty in dry weath~ er, The big road which is to rus all round the city, on the site, more or less, of the old wall is being built rapidly. Many soldiers are being used for its construction, The new provincial library is near ing completion, It will be a very handsome building; the outside style is Chinese. 'There will be a reading oom for about 100 persons; the book stacks will be of the most modern land convenient type at the back of the building; at the opposite end to the reading' room, there will be a children's reading room. It is built of conerete throughout. It is planned with the utmost economy of space, so that it will give full value for its cost of about $10,000. They hope to hold the formal opening in July.
The open space in the centre of the city, the Yuehmachang, has been planned as a garden. Four months ago, it was surrounded by a fence, trees were brought and planted all round the sides. Turf was brought and laid out; a litle hill was made in the middle and then removed. Only paths were needed to complete the garden; but they have not been made. The people round have found convenient to make their way through the fences at the corners and to walk straight across, so instead of pleasant park we have we don't know what, Manual Labour for Students After much discussion, it has been decided that all teachers and students in Wuchang shall do their manual labour for three days of eight hours. They are continuing the work of levelling the wall near the railway station. One of the results of the first part of the work on the wall was to stop up all the draifuge from inside the wall which carried the water into the old moat, Consequent= ly in the heavy raing of this month and last month, the Chenchiakal_ be: came a Jake for a good part of its length, and some of the poor market gardeners found all their land under water, The Educational Bure is trying to eliminate illiteracy from this city. Students from the middle schools are being asked to act as teachers in night schools, and good progress is reported from many of these. Reading, a little arithmetic and eitizenship are the usual lessons, and singing 48 added in some of the schools.
Also Military Training All the students of the first year in the middle schools have gone to camp for free military training. Gen. Chiang Kai-shek spoke to them during his short visit to this city; he said that the training was less to make soldiers of them than to teach them to be good citizens, ready to help all those who were in need, The students of the rst year in the universities have now gone for thei. military training too, At the end of this month there Is fo be an athletic meeting with competitors from all over the province; {o give a chance for something more than individual or schoo! competition, the province has been divided into seven districts, each containing roughly the same amount of talent, and each district has held races and competitions to select its representatives, Recently students of Wuhan University gave an entertainment 10 which many went. They gave three short plays, two in Chinese in the modern style, and one in English, Also the girls of S. Hilda's School gave a concert in the Boone Library; the first part of the programme was singing and piano solos, the second an operetta, arranged by Miss D. Wake-man; it showed a little girl's visit to a toy shop in which the toys all came to life and danced and sang for her.
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