'Yonnantu, June 24, The Rev. R.A. Bosshardt of the China Inland Mission, who spent eighteen' monthe inthe hands of Chinese Communists and who was released near Yunnanfu on Easter morning, 18 now recuperating in the Mission after having spent a month the EMS. Hospital for treatment, He arrived in a serious condition which was revealed upon medical examination, but which he himself had not reatlzed as being 0, He hopes after some more time of rear and care {o leave for Shanghai, vid. hig Kweichow station (Teunyl).
is then expected that he will be granted furlough. Mrs. Bosshardt is with tim here, having flown Yunnanfu as soon a5 the news of his release was received. She was captured at the same time but released The cotton-spinning mill being erected by the Yunnan "Esonomical Council iS now nearing completion, Mr. Thomas H. Trotter, of Newlon, Massachusetts, is here (o install the 15009 spindles and to help in the starting of work when the factory 1s nally opened, Next to the mill, the Council is erecting a steam driven electric power plant. The machinery, from England, will be installed by Mr. L. C. King, electrical engineer, who has recently come to Yunnan afler years in Shanghai with Messrs, Andersen. Meyer & Ca.
Mr. H. 1. Harding, H. MIN, Consul-General, expects to leave Yunnanfu fon June 28, travelling home. vid Angkor, Indo-China, "the Straits, Australia, New Zealand and Panama Canal. His successor has not arrived, Summer Tourist Season The tourist season is on and as usual many people from French. Indo-China are "arriving to _eicape the heat: -Yunnantu is Becersing Me creasingly popular because of its mild climate, specially in the sum mer season. ' Not a "summer-resort"
the usual meaning of the word, yet It possesses the required natural endowments to make It one of the most healthful in all China, This is Dejng increasingly recognized and, made known, Visitors are expec from other parts of China, even from as far as Peiping. Air service makes It much more accessible den and Miss Opal Ogden, who lett Batang on April 18 and whose where: abouts have been the cause of much concern on the part of the American authorities, passod Talifu on June 16 and are expected in Yunnanfu about the end of this week. They followed a circuitous route, leading from Easlern Tibet, in order 10 avoid the Communist armies In Sikang.
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