Faost un Owx Sukao, Ku, Aug. 4.
Watermelon season is in full swing. The Jukao water melons are [plentiful though not large. Rich and oer alike can afford to buy them for small melons can be purchased for few coppers and the large imported melons' bring up several dimes, So jebundant are melons that the morning trae at the congested gates is greatly impeded by the incoming melon venders, All kinds of melons are now sold. "One of our best melons is the dong-kwa only eaten after being cooked. It lasts a long. lume. Far into the winter it races the Chinese table and together with other melons and vegetables pickled in large quantities, No Japanese Evacuation of Tsingtao Tsingtao, Aug, 12.
The reported evacuation Tsingtao by the Japanese was categorically denied by the Japanese Consul-General, Mr, Otaka, interview to-day, "The news," he declared, "is entirely false." Mr. Otaka admitted that Some Japanese families were leaving, but repeated that there was no general evacuation. Tsing-10, he added, was a very safe place—Reuter, Jukao has many large pickling establishments where all kinds of vegetables are prepared by salting for breakfast foods, Not only does man profit by the watermelon season. The Jukao pigs, so. highly prized on the China market, get their share of the water melon too. Thousands of baskets of water melon peelings are carried out of the city back into the country from which they originally came to feed the pigs. "The better paris of the melon pedings, we are told, are washed by the farmers and salted and thus preserved for winter use as. food,
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