We are indebted to a resident of Swatow now on a visit for much interesting information concerning measures Which have been taken to assist Chinese in the city and surrounding districts which suffered so disastrously in the great typhoon The disaster had a curious psychological effect, apparently, upon both foreigners and Chinese. Everybody was "on the jump" for weeks after the disaster, and the wildest rumours found ready credence. One fine fiction convincingly reported that a band of Sun Yat-sen's so-called "citizen army," numbering thousands, was making a raid upon the city. People actually went up on the hills to watch for their ay-rival. This "army" of course was non- tent, and the rumour probably originated in the fact that a likin station not far away had been held up by a party of 60 or 70 robbers. Foreigners were for a time reduced to an extraordinary condition of lassitude. No one wanted to do anything and social amenities became an effort: bridge. parties. fel] flat and were temporarily abandoned, and so were the usual bathing parties.
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