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"l6oCHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK.them. They have the patronage of the chief Mandarin,and are liberally subsidised out of the public funds withbursaries and other attractions.Changpu. The reform movement is in evidence inthe district. The Viceroy has issued a proclamationagainst idol processions, posted up everywhere in theprovince, and government pressure is brought to bearupon officials to give up binding their daughters feet.Swatow District.Swatow, Chaochowfu, Svvabue.Swatow. As the native church grow r s with everincreasingdemands on a mission band which does notincrease in the same proportion, as moreover the newera in China requires that more time and strength bedevoted to the mission colleges and schools, it is moreand more difficult to give due prominence to the offer ofthe Gospel to the non-Christian throngs, a regret whichcomes from every part of our Mission field.Some increase is reported in the contributions of theSwatow congregations to the Preachers Fund. Butpreachers salaries must be raised if the promising youngmen of the church are not to be drawn away from theChristian ministry. And for a time this will necessitatemore help from home.Cases" have been fewer than usual ; only two : aHaisua Christian accused unjustly of taking part in aninsurrection in 1906 and in peril of execution, on whosebehalf one of the pastors successfully interested himself,and a dispute in the lamtsau pastorate between some ofour people and some nominal Roman Catholics in thesame village.The Hakka Country.South Hakkaland, the North Hakka Field.South Hakkaland. The adult baptisms of the year(33) have been fewer than usual some held back;