A good deal of rain fell during the last typhoon and this was what the farmers needed. Now the days are bright and pleasant and the rice crop is coming along nicely. Everything around here is quiet and peaceful and the ordinary man uptown knows nothing about the war' scares which seem to be agitating the minds of people nearer the coast.
Chinkiang is certainly a port of changes, within the last few weeks quite a number of Customs officers have changed in all the departments. The City Magistrate, the Chief of Police, the heads of the telegraph and telephone departments also have all been changed. day to attack Amoy. The transrt Chenan, with marines on ard, is following. Gen. Chuang Tsz-ping is endeavouring to hold Amoy with 1,000 troops, Owin, to a shortage of provisions an failure to pay the troops, mutiny is feare.—Reutrr.
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