Tsingtao, July 6.
In spite of the good work done by' the Police around Tsingtao, reports are constantly coming in from the} country as well as from the neighbouring coast, of depredations by th> rubbers; and so far as can be di covered the Chinere Government is ving no attention to the matter.
It is almost impossible to get boats to take any cargo along the coast. Evidently the number which were apprehended by the' Tringtao Police have had very little deterrent effect on the others. Probably almost the whole of the junk population is more or less of the character of robbers.
At the moment most of the interior contiguous to Tsingtao is suffering from lack of rain. It is not too late, however, for all this to Lo changed by a good precipitation. 'The bean crop will necessarily be short, for it should have been in some' time ago That will cripple the already bad conditions of trade, but will fortunately entail no very serious suffering on the people. The wheat crop has been good.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.