The pathos of his experience is intensified by the impact of the typhoon of Monday night, Sept. 18, which has caused damage in and vround the city such as never, it is said, been witnessed here before. Scores of large junks and Jorchas and over 70 lighters have been sunk, together with a Japanese steam launch and a small steamer, in the vicinity of the city, end many hundreds of smaller craft have perished. The loss of life thereby cannot be estimated, and others have lost their lives through falling houses and landslides. There was one case of hill-side overwhelming five houses and destroying the 27 inmates.
I was in Hartlepool on and after the day of its bombardment of the Germans, and with my family was under fire in Scarborough during its second bombardment, when a German submarine sent some 30 shells into and over the town. To-aay, Wenchow presents a spectacle of devastation like bombarded Hartlepool intensified a hundred times. A million dollars will not rearly cover the loss in this city end suburbs alone, and te this _must be added probably some hundreds of thousands of dollars in loss on the river, to say nothing ct that in the country plates, through destroyed buildings, trees, bean, maize and cotton crops, as well as fields denuded by the floods of their soil and crops.
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