While some of the huts are built of materials salvaged from rubbish, almost all have straw roofs, and' the walls are usually of bamboo or reeds often plastered, and the floors. of mud. As there' is no proper drain" age, the sanitary state of the sur-soundings is deplorable. The only coal water supply where such exists from shallow pits, approached the man and lunged at him with the bayonet, The thrust missed his face, but slashed his ear. The wounded man was taken to the Paulun Hospital, where he was given treatment, and" then reported to the Dixwell Road Police Station. "The alter immediately turned over the matter to the Chinese Public Safety Bureau, Feport, the "Nippo" declared, was absolutely false, and merely a piece of "wilful demagoguery directed gainst the Landing Party."
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