Demolition of Mukden's famous city wall, which is in a dangerously decayed condition, has jus? started.
For centuries past right up fo the more recent days of the Chinese war lords this huge circle of stone has defended the one-time Manchu capifal against invading armies and The wall is 30 feet high, 16 fect wide at the top and 26 at the base, and four. miles In circumference.
The task of tearing it down is ex. pected to take five years and will cost 1,000,000 yuan.
Only the Ta-nan Gate, through which Field Marshal Oyama made his victorious entry into the city ater the Battle of Mukden during me Russo-Japanese War, will be left Intact. If will be preserved as a national war memorisl.—Reuter.
'The mission's hospital story of the veer Is one of great achievement Bgainst heavy odds, For six months frere was one missionary doctor: and mission ry nurse in four hospitals, 'The ebb and flow, which runs strong throug' the province and which characterized by frequent changes ud nervous shifting of workers has ede it dimeult to maintain sufficient stoff at tines, Dr. Dong. I-wei. one of the leaders of the Public Health bureau in. the Trovince, was here recently, He retorts that they have 95 stations in the province and that medicines are being received, so that work is being dene remarkably well for such 9 new enterprise, It is one of the greatest reforms which the war seems fo have accelerated rather than hindered, The Chinese Red Cross the Publich Health headquarters have" instituted an anti-cholera_inulation project which has treated many thousand people. The public Is net quite accustomed to compulsory Inoculation and many times Cie Tolice have had to be called, One nurse got badly Knocked about by some who resisted, North China Factories To Be Returned Peiping, July 6.
Forty factories in North China, which have been under the management of the Japanese Expeditionary Forces fo North China since the hostilities began. will be returned to their original and rightful owners on July 7, tomorrow, "the fourth anniversary of the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese hostilities." A special committee to handle the business of returning these plants wil! be estab shed within" the "North China Political Affairs Commission, it was Fate of Asia in
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