'The general situation in' thes Parts is much as before, With Plenty of soldiers the cities are. pretty safe, but in other places, the bandits are stilt in full force, and have lately had a victory in the Lohping district. They are now back it many of their old haunts, A party of refugees returning to Tyang were attacked, and would likely have been carried off, had not the soldiers arrived in the nick of time, One young man was kil The national guards have kept splendid order, have Kept us free from rumours for nearly two months, and we are indeed sorry to see them go. The soldier ing to organise a voluntary 20/of the citizens to help to defend" their own place.
The work on the: motor roads going ahead. The Yushan Kuang-feng line will soon be finished, and the Yushan one is progressing. The former is built by the motor com-any, the latter by the local people.
The harvest has just gathered. It was splendid up tft bout ten days before reaping. Then heavy wind sprung up and kept on for days. The grain, being neat ly ripe, was blown away to the extent of 30 to 40 per cent, fence of Hankow against flood, it was," at that time, put on Secor That a nucteur of 400, wien with materials. should very high water season, when the water mark passed sec," oantained she in preparation for possible emoigen.
finpassable owing to. drains cut by teeth road ba then riners, whereas a. fey dollars
cement pipes.
Soci Hive supplied the n-cesenry Avmatter of sach importance to the Hankow citizens should not.
oilals who are hero today and gone to-morrow and who. on account of £0 many varied duties, feannot be relied upon not to piaes Henkow in this awful. situation. The Central Government should allocate a definite proportion of the local dyke tax for the flood yrotection of the City and such money. should be expended by the people fof the port se represented by. tha Chinese and International Cha: abers, of Commerce.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.