The police then took a hand and tried to empty the pool by means of one of our city fire engines, but. it is said that the pumps broke down as soon as they touched the magic water. Before dark last. night the police tried to drive the people away and it is said that there were several free fights and quite a number of arrests. To-day, however, the spring is well fenced in by the police, but they have had no easy job in keeping the people away. There are still hundreds coming in from the country, who are turned away in terrible' disappointment.
Soochow has had more or, less knowledge of "western medicine'? for 40 years, and yet this can happen.
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