Tnear that large tracts of country to the 'S.W: are flooded, the damage done being greater than for many years in the past, even to whole streets in some villages being almost entirely swept away, and many' fields standing grain, just ripening, washed down and covered with mud." This is a sad calamity, aud'nieans much distress the coming winter, Where this is not the case, the crops: in (general are I have heard nothing new to' report regarding the river conservation scheme.
19th September.
The Marquis Ito: arrived on Sunday and after a brief stay in Tientsin wont on to the
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