The harvest has just been reaped and is extraordinarily good. Ten miles from the Japanese lines the Chinese farmers are living under almost normal conditions, except that the military, as is inevitable, make fairly heavy demands for wheat and flour. Still.someone has to pay fur the cost of tne war, and the tales ai Chinese Bandits in this province, zs far as one is aware, are so much propaganda. If arson, rape and murder are the requirements of successful banditry they may be looked for, and found, else It is undisputed that within the last lour months hundreds of Chinese civilians have lost their lives in southern. Shansi; though it is fair to add that part of this i to the activities of the plaind Chinese soldiers, which makes ferentiation difficult.
All foreigners in south ore well and safe, so far as It is difficult to get into touch with those living in the occupied area as there often a dangerous no mau land dividing them from Chinese territory.
Schoolwork has been hopeicssl interrupted in the war zone. Larse schools like those in Taiku and Fen-yang have been able to tre some of their students and staff Shensi or elsewhere. The Host Schools in Hungtung carried on u the end of the last term under considerable difficulties, and is now being scattered for the time Bew The Shansi Bible Institute completed its normal year's work one maniu ago and hopes to arrange a era class in the autumn, though Mr. and Mrs. Graham Anderson have had to Jeave urgently for Peiping where the Liter is to have special medical advice and treatment.
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