Peiping, Apr. 27 Peiping was swept by a gale yesterday, accompanied by 'a. blinding dust-storm from the Gobi desert. The temperature, which had risen to over 90. degrees Fahrenheit during the: ast two days, dropped to 32 degrees.
Over 100 houses collapsed, and heavy damage has been done to the: Peiping Native Products Exhibition now being held here. Four easualties are reported.
Communication was nearly at_a standstill. Rlectric posts were up-Footed, electric wires broken, and telegraph and telephone services sus-ended. The train service was delayed, while the southbound aeroplane of the China National Aviation Cor-the Shanghai-Peiping Tientsin and the districts in eastern Hopel were also in the path of the Windstorm. Long-distance. telephone Services were disrupted and the Jdemage to the wheat crop is consider-abie—Kuo Min.
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