The English Baptist Mission, Shantung, held its annual meeting at to the restrictions placed on its export from Chefoo, has been finding its way up north. me Ciunese wader will always find a way out. Imports too, have been very poor, with the exception of unusually large quantities of rice and flour. Strange io say these large imports of cereal: have not affected the exchange rates and some people believe that this is because they have been offset by large exports of opium to, Shanghai and the other ports in Japanese control.
Relations between the foreign communities and the Japanese have been somewhat easier in recent weeks. In order to help in this direction the British community (Chamber of Commerce and Residents Association) have engaged a certain Colonel Nakagawa oe. as a kind of liaison officer between them and the Japanese military authorities, Chowtsun, February 2-4. From the report of the Foster Hospital, Chowtsun, the following facts are gathered: So many refugees, poor patients and wounded were cared for that without the generous donation of $8,000 from the Lord Mayor's Fund the work could not have been carried on. There were over 12,000 out-patients as well as nearly 6,000 at the Tsingchow branch hospital There were 815 in-patients and 3,210 days' treatment were given to refugee in-patients. There were 525 X-Ray examinations. There are 21 lepers in the Tsingchow Leprosarium, and 50 out-patients coming in for injections.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.