(rRowt oR owS CORRESPONDENT.)
It is scarcely six months since this part of Chins was suffering from such floods as had not been seen fur two generations, but: this spring has been as dry as any which wean remember. The dust-storms have been not merely unintermittent, but of a frightful character, even for North China. Within the past two or three weeks they have taken the form of violent winds, each of which at sea would almost make a young typhoon. In the Hengshui district we hear that the roof of a theatrical pavilion was blown for miles, and that two children were blown away, one killed, and the other never heard of. At Kuch'eng a theatrical mat shed was whirled into the river, and great damage done. In our own' immediate vicinity huge trees have been euapped off, and in some instances the roofs of houses have been carried quite away. It was interesting to notice that some of the oldest inhabitants," whose judgment is generally supposed to be good, were not Anticipating any such wind-storm, for luundreds, of crows' nese disappeared in a ran right through to-Sannomiya Station
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