My garden. plot Won't grow a lot But fate has not been cruel A little thing May please a king, Not size can make a jewel Each flower I grow, Quite well 1 know, Will have the dawn to wake The sun will call.
The rain will fall, God will never forsake it Herbert J. Braitdon How comforting are the above Verses at the present time, if we can only realize that "with God all things are possible." Our gardens, in which we have spent so many happy hours planning and planting, and then enjoying the beauty and riot of colour and above all the peace and quietlies to be found there, are now in the throes of the world's worst man-made vice, war, with all its senseless horrors and destruction. Our thoughts, however, must not dwell on this, or on what may or may not happen, for these verses tell us: "Each flower I grow, quite well I know, will have the dawn to wake it; the sun will call, the rain will fall, God will never forsake it."
2 seriously injured in the performance of their duty and 3 declared missing at the front.
News from Peiping states that a Chinese Volunteer Troop has been organized, consisting of students from North-Eastern University, Yenching University and National Tsing Hua University. They are 1400 strong. On October 12, 27 of these volunteers annihilated an entire Japanese outpost in the Western suburbs of the ancient Capital. They are most active around Mentoukuo and Changhsintien. On September 11, they inflicted heavy losses on the Japanese and 1 berated more than 2,000 prisoners who, on gaining their freedom, were mostly insistent on joining the guerrila war. Once these courageous students attacked even Yungtirimen. the south gate of Peiping. Another time, a student party of 10 with 3 light machine-guns ambushed a Japanese patrol. Only 2 Japanese escaped alive.
The above are pure facts, presented with no attempt to dress up. This account should definitely put at rest the wrong impression that the students who agitated for a war of resistance have now been either fright. ened away or are idling away their time at home, Ex-Universiry Man.
Shanghai, Nov. 3.
Anyone who has travelled through Siberia in the early summer and has seen the marvellous riot of colour and the size of the blooms
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