The Archive · 1923

WENCHOW AWAKES

Summer Lethargy Over: Typheons, Stadent Enthusiasm and Prophets of Woe From Our Own Correspondent.

Wenchow, Che. Sept. 22.

Once*more Wenchow can live and move and breathe with some degree of comfort and relief. No longer devs one sea its inhabit-not a few of them—their ights' rest in the open, on the flat of their backs, with-knees drawn up to their utmost height and their bed a wooden form six inches wide by about three feet long, or on the stone coping of the canal sides or the stone railings of its bridges. It ig still possible in. the time to sce its hardy ricsha coolies taking a siesta on a narrow plank stretched over one-of its stagnant and fetid canals, But night is no longer a bedlam of voices of the many who in the hot summer nights make their bed in the streets. For the more racing autumn evening breezes have begun to blow and blankets can now be used at night and when that condition of the climate has been attained the people seck the shelter of their houses for the night.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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