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servative forces at work in Nanking had succeeded in 

 having the Tutuh issue a proclamation prohibiting my 

 going on with the work on Purple Mountain until the 

 matters brought against me by these societies had been 

 discussed and disproved. This I knew meant a full stop 

 to the work as I would not attempt to disprove facts. 

 However, I reasoned thus. Here is the proclamation of 

 a Tutuh. But prior to the Tutuh's issuing this procla- 



SCIENCE HALL, UNIVERSITY OF NANKIN G 



This substantial building, thoroughly modern in every respect, is an 

 indication of the up-to-date methods of education at this university. 



mation, the generalissimo had endorsed our work. He 

 cannot use soldiers without the permission of his superior. 

 His superior will not stultify himself by sending soldiers 

 to stop what he has signed to support. Here I am with 

 about a thousand able-bodied men with picks, shovels 

 and spades, and no paper emanating from any source but 

 that of brute compulsion is going to drive us off this 

 mountain, seeing we are fighting literally for the right 

 of the poor to work to keep life in. 



The morning following the posting of the proclamation 

 in the tea house at the foot of the mountain, I was 

 detained in the city seeing after other matters, and it was 

 nearly 9 o'clock when I reached the place of roll call. 

 When I reached the place, all the squads of workmen 

 were standing ready for work, but the foreman and 

 students in charge did not dare to order the men to turn 

 a sod in face of the proclamation. Pretending to be 

 incensed at the remissness of all and pretending also to 

 be ignorant of the proclamation (of course nobody was 

 deceived), I asked each squad leader what he had been 

 doing yesterday and ordered him to take his men and 

 go on with the work. They all went quietly and as if in 

 dread of some evil. But 12 o'clock came and no squad of 

 soldiers appeared to stop us. Night came and we were 

 still in possession. The next day everyone expected 

 something dreadful. But nothing came and by night 

 they had all settled down to the belief that they must 

 have behind them good, if not better, backing, than the 

 Tutuh. The political game threw the Tutuh out of 

 office three days after the issue of this proclamation, and 

 it would be hard to make these one thousand workmen 

 believe that his issuing of this proclamation had nothing 



to do with his dismissal, though as far as I knew it had 

 nothing to do with it. 



As soon as we heard that Cheng Leh Chuan was to 

 be appointed new Tutuh, Dr. Macklin and myself jumped 

 on the train and went down to Soochow and presented the 

 document to him for signature. "Of course, I shall sign 

 it, for this is just the sort of work that is going to save 

 China," was the prompt reply of the good man. As soon 

 as he came to Nanking we were safe from any further 

 direct attacks. We were allowed to go on and gain by 

 active philanthropy those who opposed us with their 

 theories. 



This opposition was not fully overcome till after the 

 second revolution. At that time, the city of Nanking was 

 taken and sacked by the barbarous soldiers of Chang 

 Hsun. Had it not been for Dr. Macklin, for whom the 

 old general held a high regard on account of having 

 saved the lives of some of his generals, the city would 

 have been burned. As it was all the gentry that could 

 get away fled to Shanghai, where they were safe in the 

 foreign settlement, leaving their wives and children in 

 the university and mission compounds, and leaving us to 

 look after them as best we could. 



To alleviate the suffering from cold and hunger that 



HIGH SCHOOL LITERARY STUDENTS 



From this class of bright, capable young men is recruited the students 

 who take the course of instruction at the University of Nanking. 

 The future of China depends largely upon such of her young men 

 as these. 



came in the wake of the looting of the city, money and 

 rice began to be sent. But how were they to be brought 

 to Nanking, seeing that Chang Hsun had threatened to 

 commandeer all the Red Cross supplies and use them 

 for his soldiers. At this point the foreigners in charge of 

 this work in Nanking sent the writer to Shanghai to 

 bring up relief in the shape of money and help in any way 



