'This has been the coolest June that anyone can remember. At least. ten Jéays of the month were wet and unfortunately the rain started just, when the' wheat had been cut, and the of this, however, there has been a fair harvest in many places. July Degan with two days of pouring rain, and though the weather is pleasantly cool and excellent for the autumn crops, we all feel that it is time we had some sunshine, Heavy rain, (00, always means floods and destruction somewhere—one district in Kansu, near Kuyuan, where 40 li square has. been devastated by o hailstorm, and a few weeks ago, near Sen Yuan, hailstones the size of eggs killed two men and a number of mules who were unable to find shelter, Business in the city is not yet what was before the December trouble, but reconstruction goes on. The main street in the East Suburb, an important business thoroughfare, looks a ruined city in the war. "All the shops on both sides have been pulled down and are' being rebuilt on 8 street four times its former width.
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