This week, the foreign auditor of the Salt Gabelle had a narrow escape from drowning when his sampan was wrecked on a submerged rock in the middle of the river. whilst he was proceeding to his ofice on the city Bide. Fortunately he was able to get ut of his sedan chair before the boat upset, and he and his coolies and boatmen managed to cling to the wreck til rescued by a motor sampan from H. M.S. Peterel, The longer one resides in Chungking the more tone realizes how dangerous this Stretch of the Yangtze fs, with the humorous cross current Focks threatening one's passage.
Residents who are the possessors of bungalows in the hills are now moving up for the hot weather, but so we have had little heat but quite a Tot of rain.
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