Tsingkiangpu, Ku., Aug, 17.
North Kiangsu has had at least four crops, locusts which completely ate up the crops in some sections, bandits which, while not operating in the large bands of some years past, have still been a constant source of menace and trouble to the people, and finally a terrific wind storm last Saturday night which laid flat thousands of homes in this and immediately adjoining counties.
The drought was the worst experienced in some years and while there have been some good rains since the last of July, the total rain fall for the season' is far below normal. Reports of a big rise in the Grand Canal due to floods from the Yellow River are current. here but so far this has not materialized, h
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