Telegram to the Chinese Minister in Belgium, the National Chamber of Commerce, the National Students' Union and the Chinese Nationals residing in Belgium, "The fiat refusal of the Belgian Government to revise the existing Sino-Belgian Treaty upon its exriration hao electrified this entire nation with indignation and excitement. We have telegraphed the Peking Government twice urging them to carry out their statement during the month of April and duly declare null and void all treaties with Belgian upon their expiration. We have also telegraphed to all civil and military authorities, the various Chambers of Commerce! and legal fraternities throughout te whole country urging a uni action on the present issue, Pleas give us your moral and physi The most marked decline occurred during the second week: of the month, when the number of cases notified among the Chinese fell from 654 to 282, and by the end of the month, number had dropped further to 132. The total number of cases notified during th month, among the Chinese from al sources, including the International Settlement, the French Concession fand the surrounding Chinese districts, was 1,888.
Among resident Foreigners there were four deaths from Cholera, one among Americans, one among the Portuguese, and' two among Indians.
The-intense heat and high humidity of the end of July, when for two days the maximum temperature was F, was continued into when on six days of the first fortnight the maximum temperature was over 100° F,. and on one occasion was recorded as 102.2° This has only once been excess ed_in local records, when on the 25th of August 1894, thirty-two years ago, the temperature reached 102.8° F.' Although there was considerable suffering and prostration, yet there were only two deaths among Foreigners from heat-stroke during the month, Smallpox was entirely absent both among Foreigners and Chinese, TunEE wagon loads of ties for the use of native—troops locally have been received from Nanking. On Thursday 150 coolies recruited locally for the "Allied" army were transported to Nanking to undergo '8 short period of intensive training and then proceed to the front, similar batch of recruit, from "Pukien left by the same train,
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