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Show Lintsing, July 20, 1932* Bear *r». Sargent, I wanlr^to write you this suimner while at Peitaiho but seeroed to have se many pressing letters ahead of yéurs that I am now back I in Lintsing and a letter to you not written. The clinie was very small this afternoon so I am back from the Hospital early. In fact the work has been quite light since I returned from P.T.H. for the rainy season fee-gan the day I reached here and the roads are too bad to permit people to get in* Ia apite of that w« had a patientua little stone -in "the-^bladder case come in from a hundred II. I suspect he walfced, or rather his fatâief did» carrying Mm» And yesterday evening we had a laddie from sixiy li away who had had his face badly lacerated by a mad dog. Fortunately we had a course of antirabidic waccíns on haai and began treatment immediately. I am inclosing Sarle Bailou's news letter which will tell what mm interesting time we had at Council in April. The famous telegram, #ou have heard no doubt.deferred furlo for the Hunters (already fcacked to sail), detained several at nome for a yearf asked iabtl Kuggins and Gladys Williams to resign* eliminated Lintsing*s schools,Tordered Tehchow and Lintsing to oonselidate $Íf##f foreigners to reside in Tehchow only» closed the higher middle schools in. Tehchow and Fenchow and ordered a larger/ saving for this year and m xt than had already been asked for the first of the year. Altoget her it was a most disconcerting telegram to say the least. ifot a very great deal of the things MU mentioned were done just *M the Board sai d, except that we arranged for the saving of the fali araoimt asked for, both for this year anánBxt. They appointed a Committee of ten, to diecuss the consolidatíon and that met June 20th and decided thatitis unnecessary and ànadvisable to consolidate just now, They are to meet again in February and in the mean-time we shall have more light from the Board on the problem. The telegram wa the first word of any kind we had had from the Board concerning such a ftOTé* 3o we ali temi sort of unsettled here this year. Personally I don't see how a sa-ving is to be made fey consolidatíon - at present I mean. Ferhaps it can "be made in the long run by having fewer foreigners on the #####field9 but that means that the work in Shantung is going to suffer, without any doubt In my mind» my 4-íi word from or about you. the adJustment to I nave not had hope that you have been well and been toOgrievous. *our friends still ask for you here* second son is now married. • Feng Ling has not returned, but not into a very strong lad. . He is a nice quiet t-oy, Sung Ch*i TTai ""ai is still with m» but has been quite sick past year» I think we must pension her. or a year*• * ihe new life has not Chi ao Oh*ing Yuans His son is growing however. mrs. several times this I nave written several "thank you" letters stamping them and posting ior me? A letter to America is cents; therefore I. am imposing on my friendsl no other address than the Hampa one; perhaps you back of the Hewsletter. I thank yen. m would you mind now twenty-five tfill you mind sendino, the on to the E l l i s * . 1 know do and will cnange i t on the Please remember me to Edith and to your own household <fJ ÜUU. w 'A ^8**. (? |