From Our Oun Correspondent.
Kirin, Sept. 2.
I wrote to you the other day about the destruction of life and property at Kuankai_(Huatienhsien), and that the Government had dispatched boats with grain for the starving people there.
Two days ago Mr. Heineman, of the British American Tobacco Ca., passed through here on his way to the ruined town. He was sent by his Company to buy and distribute food to the amount of $2,000. What a fine example of humanity many foreign firms are exhibiting in this land of sorrows The destruction by the same flood at Heishihchen, a little further up the Hui Fa river, is reported to be nearly as great as at Kuankai, but not so much loss of life. A
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