The drought of the summer has been definitely broken. Showers are common. The heat is still keeping up. Crops are only fair, having ssu fered greatly by the drought of summer. The water in the larger canals is slightly higher; the smaller canals are still without water.
Government offices such as Post Office, Telegraph and long distance telephone offices are being transferred to a newly constructed and centrally located building. Mail service this year has been very slow owing in Part to the fact that launches, have Rot been going, due to low water in the canals. It is possible to zet freight from Shanghai in two or three days delivered to the house, whereas mail takes four and five days at the quickest. Freight delivery is now made by trucks loading up at the boat Tanding of the Shanghai-Yangchow up-river boats, which method has hastened the delivery of freight 2 great deal, since the new auto root from Jukao to the Yangtze was opened.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.