The recent two typhoons which came with an interval of only three days, have again caused considerable damage. Four hundred feet of the compound wall of the U. (M. College has again been blown down. Last September witnessed the same thing, and the wall was rebuilt in the early part of the year only to be blown down again this following September. Truly the rhyme re typhoons holds good here; "September, Remember!"
The archipelago surrounding Bullock Harbour some eight or ten miles beyond the Wenchow river mouth, and known herb as T-so suffered extremely—in last year's great typhoon, and it is said that in that part it was even worse this.year, Many of its people are in a very indigent condition in consequence,.and living and labour have become unusually expensive, the people being Always dependent very largely on the importation of rice, timber, building materials, and man necessities from the mainland, The plain surrounding Wenchow was a vast lake, in parts five feet deep, or, as one who saw it said, it was all river.
That section of the foreign community which sought, the cooler atmosphere during the hot season on the Bungalow Hill across the river, and those who went further afield in search of the same pleasanter conditions, in Mokanshan, Chefoo or even Shanghai have now returned, and with them Miss Moler of the C. T. M. has come back from furlough in the U.S. A., secompanied by Mrs. Banks of the same country. who is taking up work in the same mission.
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