Just below the town, onthe riv-r, isa huge breach in the embankment, caused by the heavy thods list moon, The country is tooried for some miles. The country people living behind the embankment, finding themselves homeless, attacked ant burnt down the houses of those living on the embankment on both sides the breach, saying they ought t" have kept the embankment in order, and now the blackened ruins of seventy homesteads mark the indignation of the enraged farmers. A line of post offices has been opened up the Han, beginning at Hanchuan and yoingon to Hsingan. We have now a daily service, and obliging officials.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.