Chefoo, July 7.
Now that June has come and gone we are coming to the rainy season, and rain is badly needed. Some welcome showers in April did good immediately by such a burial, conducted by the very Kind assistance of the Navy.
Naval Movements proved an exception. The seashore fairly crowded with all kinds of bathers and those who have foreshore Fights have found it expedient to fence in some of their parts of the shore above high water. This adds to the convenience of regular residents without at all incommoding those who come from elsewhere. The USS. Black Hawk left a few days ago te pay a visit to some other port and is due back in about 9 week's time. Independence Day was celebrated by American citizens and instead. On that day the USS. Chaumont arrived and that evening she joined with the destroyer squadron in a searchlight display with rockets. "Though not equal 10 the specially me display of this kind which they so kindly gave on the evening of the Coronation, it was a very fine show and the more usual Position of the ships off the breakwater, with the hills of the Blut as gjbackeround, gave a' very pleasing effect.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.