have flooded the Fu and Kan rivers and id surrounding coun-ry. There has bes rise of 35 feet at Nanchang, the highest known for 26 years. The biesking of th dikes above and below the city ims cvmpletely surrounded the cloy with a Ixke of water The water is up to the roofs of hundreds of homes, and great destruction to crops is sure to result. The yamen wf the Provincial Judge is flooded so that he is unable to hold court, or receive callers, unless they should call in beats. The Governor and other high otticials are! repuiring to the temples twice a day praying for fair weather. To-day the clouds! are lifting and the outlook is better. The Kan river is over two miles wide opposite the city. Owing to the flod the rics dealers have put the price of rice up 4 cash on the shen, with a prospect. of going igher, when the officials issued proclainations prohibiting the advancing of the price of rice, These proclamations have had quieting influence ov the populace.
There is water enough in the Kan to accommodate the largest ships in Shanghai, should they desire to make a run to this city.
This is the second flood of the season, The early flood, which was not so large us the present one by about 8 feet, destroyed most of the wheat crop along the rivers, and now this destruction of the rice makes a very serious problem for both the officials and people.
25th June.
Europeans, Ma Vu-chuan and Hu Ch'ung- and Lighter Company and for bottom'y in his, will come here very soon. His nephew, - genera', Seventeen large British irans-Ma Eh -ya is here. The officials are not i ports will be here: before the 28th of July {willing to receive us in audience. They jand during that month and August the will not punish the most guilty of the: greater part of the Bri ish Expeditionary Boxers, All is showing imminent danger, Force_sill return to The Frene. I know that the glorious Germsn army has 1 and Germme will make even greater helped the missions very much, and so I! embarkations, and Chihli will be reduced ash you to send a strong fores for the proto the garrison deemed sufficient to exact tection of T'aiyuanfu. Here in our city guarantees, We ore to have fear British 1,000 and more men can live. I beg you indian regiments here with probably not to listen to the stories of Chinese, even one cavalry regiment, a battery of they are priests. They are afraid of the Field Artillery,' and some pompous. In Manda:
sand s4y always that there is no addition is thought there will be the danger.
Iam Sir, With due respect, Your humble s-trent, Vicar-General.
P.S.—We have telegraphed three times to Peking and written three letters, but I believe they have not arrived and we have received "0 reply. (This letter arrived at the 2ud Battalion of the 4th Regiment of the German Expeditionary Force at Paotingfu, on the 20th of June.)
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