The people, under official direction and compulsion, worked on the canal banks by day and watched them by night. Perhaps those living in the threatened area were willing to work, and the officials forced the ones from higher land to help them. They have used poles, branches of trees, cane stalks, sand bags and earth in their efforts to strengthen the banks. Idle boats here, waiting {or cargo, have been compelled to tie alongside the banks in the most While the water has not risen high enough to overflow, it has remained at a high stage so long that it has soaked into the banks and weakened them. In some places, water has seeped through and fied ditches behind them. The Chinese are very much afraid that these banks will break.
"Parking" Kerosene Boat 'A coalyard in the threatened district has reduced its stock almost to the vanishing point, leaving each shipment of coal in the boat until it needed. An enterprising kerosene agent dragged a large boat over the ial bank and "parked" it inside the agency yard, ready for an emergency. Thus far, this boat has "not been needed.
In this part of the province, the water has begun to recede, but the Process is very slow, over a period of a few weeks. 'The stage of the Grand Canal at this place has fallen about one foot. In the country near Fushan and Old Pichon, north~ west of Sutsien, the water has fallen two feet or more, while a part of the city of Yaowan,' now has been left dry by the receding water. The people have reason to hope that the highest stage already has passed—it Row seems to be approaching the sea near Haichow. ince the flood began to recede, there 1s hope that some of the fields may become dry enough to be sown with wheat before winter sets in. On many, the water still several feet deep, and of course there is no hope lowing them this " Autumn. Thousands of farmers will have no wheat crop next summer.
Dr. William F._ Junkin, senior evangelist of the Southern' Presbyterian Mission Station here, recently assed through a very severe attack of paratyphoid fever. He fell Ul at Sutsien in July, then went to Kuling, where his condition worsened until late in August, when he passed the crisis. Remaining on 'Kuling until the middle of October, he recently Felurned to Sutsien. Though still too weak to undertake heavy' work, he gradually is regaining his strength.
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