Wo have received " letter, written in Chinese, of which the following is n translation, with a request for pyblioation The writer is a native of Changsha, Hunan, Peng Lan-sing by name, and Christian pastor. Some years ago be was sent by the London Mir Hunan province to e'art Christian sovietics, to establish churches, and to exhort people to do good. Ho made his headquarters in the city of Hing: chou, where he has been over ton years. During the prosont spring we wore visited by incessant downpours of rain, commencing from the 20th of the 3rd moon to the begi moon, resulting int rivers, overflooding the level ground to the height of several tens of feot. In the South the waters starting from Yung-chou came flooding the Héngchou n Ta the West the waters rushing from the Te'ao river came dashing against the walls of Héogchou city, while Eastward the waters of the Lai river also came—rushing down in our city walls, In consequence of this meeting of waters the prefecture of Héngchon with its several district cities, abore and hi low, on the right and on the left, on ti North, South, Kast and West have been inundated to the depth of several tens of fect. Innumerable lives of old and young have been lost, and houses and Awellings destroyed ' thereby. Those who osonped with their lives bad either to climb up high trees, to mount the roofs of high houses, or to run up to the hills to sock for safety. The unfortunate survivors in a f
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