This city hag made progress this summer. Two tall brick factory chimneys now tower aloft, The China "Travel Service's large new hostel near the station is. nearly finished, there are two new cotton factories and the station buildings well advanced. It is reported" that the railway authorities Intend to make this the best station on the Uni People are saying that this has been the rainiest summer for hund-eds of years, though the memory of even the oldest inhabitant does not go back as far as that. The autumn crops are good except in those places where the floods have washed them all away. Scores of villages are in this pitiable plight and many families ore homeless. Unless the sun shines and we have a month of dry wea ther it will be dimeult to harvest the autumn crop and the people in the flooded districts will be unable to plant their winter wheat,
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