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Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18807, 1 December 1932, Page 3

Tho Chinese Puzzle. —The following extract from a letter received by the last inward mail from an observant New Zealand missionary now resident in China is of interest:—“As to the present, position of China, it is a puzzle that the wisest are unable to unravel. There is really now no constituted Government, luit a number of factions who seem to he watching one another to see what the other one intends to do. Marshal Feng has once again emerged from his seclusion, and advocates that his country should take up arms against Japan and thus retake Manchuria. Plague, pestilence, and famine had taken a heavy toll during the past 12 months, hut tho people seem to lake it as a matter of course. The work of the Gospel goes on just I lie same except in those provinces where Communism holds sway. It is wonderful how (he way keeps open and the people are willing to listen. Whenever I go out mi a tract distributing tramp one is always well received, and there is a rush to .secipx. some of the literature.'’