Most of the schools are now launch, the autumn term and are throbbing with new life. The city is crowded with students and they are are all looking forward to the great feast day of October 10, "The double Tenth." " Hangchow continues to live up to its reputation of being a great foreing house for nationalism and a great nursery of talent, City im-Provements are manifest on every hand, and. there is a revolution in transport which, with the increase of motor tra, is' turning the eily into has been continuing since Friday, [September 28, Several breaches in the dykes have Joceurred along the Shaho and Fenho Rivers. As streets in the city are inundated, local residents are reported to be facing an acute shortage Jot coal and vegetable supplies The telegraphic and telephone Jcommunieations with Shanghai and Peking, it is further reported, have Tung-pu [suspended, due to the insecure state lof the road beds, Up to the present, the rain has Jnot yet ceased. It is generally feared that the threatening flood cannot be averted, if the downpour continues Central' News,
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