Nantungchow, Oct. 10.
After the scare of Japanese bombers that only a few weeks destroyed the Nantungchow Christian Hospital the people of Tungchow are easily frightened. Repeatedly Japanese planes are seen over Tungchow. Only recently about 30 planes were seen flying over Tungchow. Almost daily gunboats bellow out in the neighbourhood.
Recently the people of Tungchow and Jukao were frightened by a sound that resembled an aeroplane. The signal however, was not given. The sound lasted for about three hours. Later on it was found that millions upon millions of beetles were passing through the air. Hundreds of them fell and later were picked up. Two Butterfield & Swire vessels in Tungchow waters were also witness to this swarm of beetles as they crowded into cabins and saloons, With the opening of the new inland waterway for the transportation of cargo up river, the large quantity of freight stored in warehouses is slowly moving and the farmers are rapidly collecting eggs, chickens, hogs, cotton and other produce for the Shanghai market.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.