The drought has at last been broken up by several hours of rain over a wide area.
There is now a fair prospect of the autumn crop being sown in time to get a late harvest. The prospects for cotton and tobacco are greatly improved.
Several reports of brigandage on the roads leading to the railway in Honan have reac us, and Shansi muleteers still refuse to cross over the Yellow River.
Here is a job ready waiting for Wu Pei-fu's troops. To rid the provinces of all marauding bands.
The section of the Lung-Hai Railway, from Kuanyintang to Shan-chow (Honan), is now being pushed on in earnest, although foreign engineers speak of another two years as possibly needed for completion. The tunnelling, bridging, cutting and raising embankments on this road are giving a fine object lesson of what can be dona in regions where such have been considered impossible by the inhabitants.
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