July 28.
While Nanking is suffering. from the worst floods and heaviest rame fait for halt' century: and other towns along the Yangtze. including' Hantow, ar. also sotering other parts of Nort Sweltering wove yi hay the raze Tonth in Peking, but after Heavy falls at the beginning of the month no rain has fallen for neatly thave weeks.
'Temperatures several. times in the lage ten days have soared. wel beyond the hundred and' some thermometer have registered" shade temperatures ax high as 207. The efiinl readings for Sunday and Monday in Dentin were 108 and Meanwhile torrential rains have swept north as far as Hantan, in the south of this province, where they have been so severe as to prevent fighting, and up through Anhui, where they have caused wash-out on the, Tientsin-Pukow railway; to Tsinanfu, the Shantung capital, where the flooded' by a terrific thunderstorm; So residents of the former capital are hoping that their turn for cool-ug Showers will come before lone.
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