While' steps have been taken by the authorities in Peking and Tentsin to relieve the less fortunate inhabitants, itis learned that 18 deaths from cold in Peking and over 30 in Tientsin have been reported up to date. Telegraphic communica ation between Peking-Tientsin and man, interrupted by the tearing down of a portion of the lines by the blizzard, way' restored yesterday. The Pei Ho, however, turned into a sheet of ice overnight, block-Ing the movements of about 20 Chinese and foreign vessels betiroen Tientain and Taku. The port tsin is now closed to nen-going steamers for the winter.
Nowhere else is the inclement weather which has the country in {ts grip been worse felt than Harbin where the temperature has fallen to 87 degrees below zero, All rivers in Manchuria fre ice-bound and winter transport over the ice has commenced—Kuo Min, Intense Cold in Harbin Peking, Jan. 11.
The cold snap is abating here, the "temperature to-day having risen a few points above. zero, bat reports coming in show the cold still intense over the rest of North China. "Harbin recorded 55 degrees Yelow zero. There have been many deaths from cold there and also in many other parts of Manchuria, as well as in Kalgan and north-west Shansi generally.
Since Friday there have been over! hundred deaths from the cold in Peking and its suburbs and it is believed the death roll in Tientsin is
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