Wash-Out North of Pengpu: Water as Far as Eye Can See Evidently the floods in north China are more serious than the average resident of Shanghai has been inclined to think. The Tientsin-Pukow Railway line has been washed away and communications between Shanghai and Peking and Tientsin have been considerably interfered with.
Mr. C. H. Shields, the local Postal Commissioner, has received the following telegram from Nanking:—"Washout on T. P. R. between Pengpu_ and Kuchen. Repairs expected to take one week."
Mails for the north are, therefore, for the present being sent to Tientsin by steamer.
Inquiries at! the office of Mr. A. Richardson, traffic manager of the Shanghai Railways, elicited the statement that passengers from Shanghai can only go as far north on the Tientsin-Pukow Railway as Pengpu. For the present passengers will only be booked as far as that tention by the local railway authorities.
Passengers who left for she north on Monday and Tuesday have returned to Shanghai. Mails which were sent out by Monday's and Tuesday's trains have not been brought back to Shanghai but hava been conveyed across the flooded districts in boats, An engineer who arrived here on Monday states that the water is just like a sea, it was to be seen on every side as far the eye could reach. A strong wind was blowing at the time of this gentleman's coming and the water was washing against the railway tracks very strongly. Tt was feared at that time that the tracks would be washed away and now this has actually henpened.
Mr. Richardson believes that. it will be another week before the line can be repaired and tions restored. inese" press states that Peking has declared 19 "exchanges" in Shanghai to be illegal and has ordered their suppression.
His Honour Judge C. 8. Lobinglor left on Wednesday morning by the P.M.S. Silver State on his usual biennial furlough to the United States. individuals to buy the same amount of articles a on the whole curtailed owing to the higher level of p Parties tt is not quite eatin whether h the increased number of seatomais they now have, the retail establishments are doing the same volume of trade as before, as though their takings may be as much or more than previously, the public are quite probably receiving less. me
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