Latest in Long and Mixed Series of Catastrophes Nanking, Oct, 7% twenty years of civil wats and the Stechuen, after going through
econ "severe carthqualie, "which gaused over 6,000. casualties, now jg facing" an unprecedented drought. His reported that 6,000. vi are affected, leaving 41,150 Zamifies in a destitute condition.
Most of the villages' have not had tny'rain for sixty to seventy days, and not only the' wheat rice, and vegetables. have been withered under the hot baking "stu, but forests inthe mountains Have been swept by. widespread' fires, "At Ghaneking, "the superstitious opalice subscribed funds, and nade long' incense. sticks. 0 ft high, Surrounding the burning incense, thousands prayed for rain, Gon. Liu Hsiang, commander. chief of the Szechiven forces, ha Petitioned "the Government Appropriate $4,000,000 from the American cotton and wheat loan funds for the relief of drought ye:
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.