Tsingtao, Oct, 18.
Describing avery recent journey' to Yihsien in South Shantung, which distant about 500 miles by rail from Tsingtao, the Rev. H. G. Romig, chairman and' executive of the Pres~ byterian Mission in Shantung impart ed some quite interesting information fud this together with news gleaned from other sources, is given below, Leaving at Tsingiao at 830 am. the train arrived at Tsinanfu about 12 hours Jater which is not much longer than the time taken in normal times. A permit to travel on the train is hocessary and is obtainable from the Japanese Consulate here, counter-Signed by the Japanese Military authorities, It is interesting to note! that as, regards these permits or passes" the authorities in Tsingtao a great deal more obliging than. those in Shanghai, where permit apnear to be very difeult to obtain, guerilla unit in the region West of Tsining in the Tsaochowfu section.
The first group of foreign missionaries who returned to points along, the Klacchow Tsinan Railway, by Jeourtesy of the local Military Auth-ferities on September 1 all got to their destinations safely. The second Jzroup of eight foreign and several] Chinese with a number of mille goats jand a calf and which left here for Tehowfu on September 15 also.arrived, after a slow trip by junk to Ching-ow, then overland by cart to Ichowfu, through bandit infested country.
it is interesting to note that Missionary property throughout Shantung suffered comparatively slight Cash for Travellers To North Limited
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