We noticed a report in your paper a few weeks ago from a Hankow Correspondent to the effect that cholera was rife in Chungking. As far as the writer can ascertain from @octors in the elly, there has been case of cholera in Chungking this season, There have been many reports that, there. Is serious. sickness and heavy morality among the provincial troops who are fighting the Reds to-war the north of the province, but the disease is not cholera, Tt appears tobe enteric or typhus, induced by the Athy and unfavourable conditions under which the troops exist. One Heneral in. Chengtu is reported thave said that he was losing 300° men day in the epidemic.
'The river continues to rise and fall rapidly after each heavy rainstorm, Guctuating between fifteen and thirty' feet,
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