For some weeks rumours have been rife that our town was to have another. Lantern Festival on the The king for amusement, is estimated that the total cost {to the town of the week's festival will be about $100,000. Those who sell cakes and food siond to benefit, all interested In forms of transport also gain, but the great majority are Dut to considerable expense In one terraining their many friends and relatives, who crowd. In upon. them. Your correspondent walked through the town this evening when many of the preparations were in an advanced state, Most of the streets were covered with native cloth. or silk awnings from which lanterns of the ost varied. kind were hanging, Barrows were bringing in loads. of fugal cane done up. in' matting, Crowds of people strolled along. Loud speakers blared away. Water carriers shouted their way " through Uuying to prevent their buckets up-selting, "ai intervals "one crawled lunder''the frame work because the bhangings ud fitings were not complete.
fore Hospital Cases After the New Year holidays, travel has begun in earnest, and th hospital Is rapidly Alling up. with patients, Dr. Ruth Tait is assisting here, She isa Sianfu refugee, Dr. Ronald Still has gone to help at Taiyuanfu where Dr. Wyatt Is recovering from an attack of typhus The village walls are being. te-paired. In particular, the surround: ing moats are being widened to four metres and deepened 10 two metres. Thus a great deal of good wheat being cut away bringing less to the farmers. What is not realized by the country as a whole Is the ever Increasing loss which Is. suffered in agriculture through the Immense amount of good land occupied by graves, On. the other hand, as one oes about Just now, ronds and paths fre made narrower and every pose sible bit of ground is sown" with some kind of grain. In this case, however, what is lost on the savings by no means made up by what Is cined on the roundabouts,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.