Kachek, Feb, 97.
The local soldiers are doing pretty thorough work. We have heard of but one robbery of any importance within the past month. and the soldiers have caught five of the gang which, these five say, numbers eighteen, The lottery evil continues unbated in Vangneng and Dengang district Two French subjects have gone from Hainan to serve in the European War.
Dry. warm weather is making the lot of the farmer a bitter one, as rice fields are drying up.
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