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Kueiteh, Ho., Apr. 28, A trip around the Yungcheng and shown that been Guststorms instead, those districts have been getting rain in sufficient quantities. The autumn crops have and T saw kaoliang at iaih in many fields which is already a couple of inches high. The country is enjoying a time of exceptional peace and quietness too just now for which the people are very thankful. They had their share of trouble inst year when Lao Yang-Jen's men were quartered there, Now they are enjoying the "no-soldier blessing" (52M) as their expression goes, for they are fortunate enough not to have any the regular soldiers quartered in these towns but only their own militia who do not mutiny.
There is a glorious rain falling here in Kueiteh to-night for which the people will be thankful indeed, Owing to the drought it has not been possible to plant the autumn crops, Kaoliang and millet, upon which the poor depend for their food and fuel and the spectre of another famine was already appearing before the vision of the people, This timely rain has dissipated this terror, however, and the sowing will not be too late. Barley has headed out all through the district and the Wheat, although somewhat yellowed and stunted, will alli probably produce quite a fair crop now that the rain has come.
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