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...United Lutheran Church, whose hospital in Tsingtao, Shantung has been carrying a heavy load during the war, appealed for relief funds in January, but has not increased its annual budget of some $25,000. Since last autumn the Methodist board of foreign missions has collected $61,000 above its budget, about one third of what it needs. Lately missionaries of the University of Nanking (in which Methodists and four other denominations cooperate) made a remarkable 1,000-mile trek to West China Union University in Chengtu, a three-week trip by boat past Hankow and through the Yangtze gorges. This...
...Chinese Universities which are part of the Harvard-Yenching Institute have closed their doors because of war-conditions, according to an article in the Christian Science Monitor. They are the University of Nanking and Shantung Christian University...
...Shantung Christian Closed...
...Chinese department of Shantung Institute, is inactive now since the closing of the University in October. Although many of the teachers left Tsinan at this time it has been announced that the Institute's support will be available for the University when it reopens...
Meanwhile, however, rumors that General Han Fu-chu, the able, progressive former Governor of Shantung, had been executed for failure to resist the Japanese (TIME, Jan. 24) were followed last week by definite news that he had been executed at Hankow by a firing squad. Said Shanghai's Daily China Press, which the distant Chinese Government still controls: "The shamelessness of many Chinese generals in the recent past is indeed appalling. Even in the days of the defunct [Imperial] Manchu regime responsible generals were wont to resort to suicide in attempts to redeem their personal honor...