The Yung Ting Ho, which flows through the country between Peking and. Tientsin, is perpetually shifting its course. It has never really had a proper bed; it flows along a shelf with the surrounding country under its malign shadow. When floods come, the river la certain parts of its course simply tips over, leaving the people to wait patiently' for a return to formal conditions, when they try to move the river back to its former course.
Now it is pursuing its erratic way over the whole countryside, fed by the relentless rain and the drainage from the higher levels.
With the terrified villagers, augmented by coolie Jabour, working on the dykes. throughout the 'Hai Ho system, the outlook for Tientsin in the opinion of many people is alarming. The discharge of the Hai Ho is inevitably inereasing, and another grave factor the' presence of considerable bodies of silt which inlay soon impede the smooth passage of the waters, fore-inches of rais morning.—Reuter's Pacific Tientsin's Increasing two nights and uns weather to-day are causing inereasing anxiety with regard to Ti tsin, while the country districts between Peking and_Tientsin are suffering severely. The oldest foreign residents of Peking decribo the weather as unprecedented. there having been only a few fine days in six weeks Service.
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