_Peculiarly tragic is the description sent us by a correspondent at Haimen of the devastation of that little city by last week's typhoon, a story all the more mov ing in that it is so wholly unvarnished. Whether there be anything in the configuration, here, of the Chekiang coast, which juts out in a northeasterly' direction to the Chusan Islands, to attract type hoons, we do not know. But again and again one seems to remember their being reported as having gone ashore in the region of Wenchow. It is only within the last six eight years that Taichow, which Ties some 90 miles up the river from Haimen, was similarly visited. On that occasion if we remember right ly there was a combination of flood. from the mountains inland, and typhoon; at any rate there was appalling lost of life. In the present instance it is to be feared that the full story of the typhoon's devastation has yet to be told, our correspondent speaking of corpses in the mouth of the river, not to be included among the dead of Haimen itself. It is a strange commentary on the little that one part of China knows of another, even in these days of plentiful tel. grams, that we should have had to wait a week for news of so dire 2 catastrophe.
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