Chengtu, Aug. 18.
CChengtu, the provincial capital of Szechuan, has been deluged with rain during the past week. According to the meteorological Station of the College of Science the National Szechuan Univer the volume of rain which fall here.during the past month was 371.75 decigrammes, This ex: ceeds all records for several years—Kuo Min. certain of the new railways. This plan provides. for" village' tits 400 households each. The cultivation fof land for n prescribed period is to be, the Joint undertaking' a all the the entire group should be comploted useholds in the group. Houses for
within one year of beginning the plantation, and atter three years the cultivated Tands will be equally' di tributed among all the households.
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