Continued “Everybody Knows It But Us".

the government of Yuan Shih Kai.

A few years later, when the war lords were fighting, he was in Changsha
the night the provincial forces evacuated the city. There were “ lights, no
police, no government. Everyone was waiting tense and breathles for the national
forced to enter. He went out at midnight to see what was going on, and he came’
upon a scene which he has never forgotten.

Old and New China.

On the siveet in front of a temple he found a long-whiskered scholar
organizing a home defense force. Youths stood armed with the only weapons they
could find--tritons, halberds, spears ans swords. A boy with a torch stood behind
the scholar eid ta front of him stood another boy holding up a board from which
‘the old man was calling the roll. Ancient China was carrying on.

The Japanese poured into Manchuria in 1931, end the next year they
bombed Shanghai. From the roof of a cotton mill Johnson watched the bombs crash
down. Year after year he followed the government in its retreat into the interior,
: few miles ahead of the artillery. The refugees halted in Chungking, and when he
left there a short time ago the bombs were raining rather frequently. One fell
within 200 yeards of him.

"But I never felt I was in any denger in China," Johnson says blandly.

"T fear for my life more in the traffic here in Washington."