Mukden, Nov. 3 The autumn in southern Mat churia lingered on and the people delayed their usual preparations for cold weather, by leaving their vest tables, ete., in the ground or expo ed to the elements, The trees largely forgot to shed their leaves and, strangest of all, the wild geese bare hardly been seen or heard until this morning. Two night ago it came on a steady warm south-west rail, then the wind veered north-east and all the rain drops froze on anything which intercepted them, but the that reached the ground did not freeze. The telegraph and other wires had increased in diameter to about an inch or more of solid ice. Then snap went pole after pole and the city and district is a though it had been bombarded, with poles and wires down in all dire tions.
The worst sight is along the tramline towards the 8.M.R. station where the local telephone palet bearing their hundred or more wires on each, are nearly all lying seress
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