Frost Our Own Comesroxserr Sutsien, Nov. 6.
Some time ago, a news agency in a neighbouring ity reported that Sutsien City was a small. island, This statement was an exaggeration of the actual facts. "The east dyke of the Old Yellow River Bed forms the mud wall on the western side of Sutsien City, outside the brick wall. Since the Yellow River water left this bed in 1852, no flood has ever risen high enough to overflow this dyke, or the main part of the city.
Though the city is not, and has not been, an island, people in the southern and eastern suburbs have been in a distressing condition of anxiety for more than two months. The Grand Canal flows east of the city, at one point only a few hundred yards from the outer wall. Since the latter part of August, the canal water threatened to break out and flood the land between the canal and the city, also the southeastern dis trict inside the outer wall.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.