From Our Own Correspondent, Chefoo, Sept. 4.
Chefoo has just experienced as severe, if not a more severe storm than that which occurred here a little later than this a year ago. It will be remembered that, about 12 months ago, the Bund, of which the community was somewhat proud, was destroyed by the large logs which were thrown against the bunding. The reconstruction of a concrete Bund had just been completed and, as far as a layman could tell, it was as powerful a piece of masonry as could have been imagined. On Saturday morning the test came.
Almost without warning, one of the worst galles Chefoo has had suddenly burst on the port. The wind blew hard from the east, the sea became rough and turbulent, with waves breaking over the rocks and the breakwater, while the heavy downpour of rain was blind. ing. The Bluff and the islands off the bay were invisible.
The oppressive heat gave way to a sudden drop in temperature. It was impossible to be out of doors, for mackintoshes were of little use in keeping out the rain and it was not long before even ricshas were unobtainable,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.