From Our Own -Sorrespondent.
Nanning, July 30.
We have been so Jong isolated from Hongkong on account of the tighting on the river that we have nearly forgotten what the old normal life was like. Then our supplies came up regularly, and newspapers and letters were a daily occurrence.
Poor Nanning is inert. and dispirited—so many shops shut, the rich merchants fled, the big officials all disappeared, newspapers suspended, and rumour—after rumour keeping the people in content suspense.
To add to the general misery, we had the tail end of a typhoon, with torrents of rain. The river is now in flood, inundating thousands of houses.
A dozen motor vessels are tied up at the almost deserted Customs it crews in de-aye Sling in daily from the country, bringing tales of defeat, and adding a terrible problem to an already over-taxed city, for they have arms and ammunition and long arrears of pay owing.
The Roman Catholics and Seventh Day Adventists have converted their compounds into refuge camps.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.