Five Embassies Forced to Make Representations pital. Tt has an in-patient accom-Jmodation of 60. Archilect May of the English Methodist—-Missionary Society, London, deserves much jeredit for the sensible and practical plan of the plant, which is essentially a group of some six buildings, corridor connected, so that there are Jfour open courts surrounded wards and other buildings. These Jare one storey save for the central out-patient block, which is {wo-storey with a generous loft above.
Though bricks ax a building material are almost unknown in these parts, they have been used through Out and the result. is pleasing to the eye. As the brick are of a fine quality, the buildings promise to be more permanent than if constructed of adobe. Supplies had to be secured locally. Trees. from the hills were cut for lumber; stone was quarried from the mountains of the region, [which also supplied the lime; and the mountain streams furnished the sand, [After a year of constructive work-a part of the plant was occupied over Jo year ago, and now the buildings fare practically complete, though the Peiping. Feb. 1, Mail censorship here has reached serious proportions, even Japanese mail not! estoping. attention, Five foreign Embassies in Pel have had to make representations to the Japanese civil authorities agatast {interference with their mall 'A large staff of censors is kept bus the. Port. Oflee. going trough quantities of mail, Obviously: not all Mail can be censored, and "it is deduced that mail. is" sorted for addresses that might cover interesting material—embassies, newspapers, core respondents, this applying to both incoming and outgoing mall reclosed envelopes are frequent, and Complaints of clumsily opened and
atten some of the contents are mise: Ing" "Some reports rom." relable sources allege that cheques' Yauite soles to the finders) are sometimes missing from censored mail, Recently a foreign Embassy received a censored leer n'a double envelope The "outside envelope had. been eu find then sealed after censorship, but the censer didn't bother to real Mission began planning for this the Inner envelope, 'During 1997 nearly' 400 in-patients ener feratum over 20 years ago. japanese censors, ewen Sai were treated in the hospital, and including the dispensary service in the city) there were 15,000 dispensary treatments, and a total of 1,200 major and minor operations. An X-ray. lant 1s planned for the future; already there are a laboratory, electric lighting, a deep well, rain: water cisterns and incinerator. A large gatehouse, including guest rooms, and quarters for visiting tribes-people, two residences for physicians, a. residence for matron, and Quarters for, others of the Staff are completed and occupied. Two memorial rooms and several cots are already provided, snd one largo ward is named the Hadden Ward, in memory of Dr. R. P. Hadden who died here in harness, in 1990, censoring mail. posted in Peiping by Japanese to places abroad and to Japan. The reason for this new. [development is unknown, but the general assumption is that the thorities wish to prevent the appear ance in Japan of any indesirable description of conditions in. North
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.