Trouble Expected in the Town From Our Special Correspondent, Ichang, June 29.
The river is rising rapidly—seven feet in eight hours—which is the greatest known. Many deaths among Chinese have been caused, and one. foreigner lost, the latter being Mr. Hooker, the Chengtu representative of the American Bible Society. The sampan in which he was travelling was upset, but his wife and two children were saved.
American sailors are stationed. throughout the town with machine guns, as trouble is expected from the Patung troops. Eight hundred of these arrived this morning and are quartered on the golf course awaiting the arrival of the Kweilee.
The Customs to-day burned a ton and a half of opium connexion with the house allow ance granted to employees earning more than $100.2 month, the Chinese Press states that the Shanghai-Nanking and Shanghai-Hangchow-Ningpo Railway authorities have granted the same concession to their employees who do not earn $100. New employees are not eligible for the allowance, nor are those Who continue to live in quarters provided by the railways.
Foren Premier Hsiung Hsi-ling has arrived in Shanghai in connexion with famine relief work for his native province, Hunan. The Chinese press states that the Hunan famine situation is becoming more xenons daily, and according to police reports some 180,000 people are at. present suffering as a result. In the district of Anhui girls are being sold according to weight. Those less than 20 years of age sell at eight cents a catty while those from 20 to 90 years are given away free to those who are willing to take them.
Tux following account of good sport is taken from the "Straits Times":—Mr, H. C. Alec, of the Borneo Company's garage, Orchard Road, has just returned to Singapore after a record shoot on the banks of the Kukob River, in Johore. He obtained a few days permit from the Chief Police Officer, Johore, to shoot crocodiles, and in four days bagged no fewer than 54 of these slimy creatures, a few measuring over 16 feet in length. That the shooting is no tell-tale is evidenced by the presence of the 54 dead crocks at the Taxidermist Company's premises in Tank Road. In view of the success of the shoot it is not surprising that the ©.P.0. has extended Mr. Alec's permit to shoot crocodiles on the Kukob River for ome year.
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