Peiping, July 28.
Shanghai has been suffering from floods, so has North China, and over a very much wider area, due to. several days of torrential rains. Tungchow to the east has been under water for svertl days and people can only go about in its streets by means of boats. To the west of the city the country is also flood~ ed: and foreign residents living out in the Race Course district have been marooned in their cottages. Some of the bolder and more hardy spirits who were determined to go to town had to wade up to their waists in some spots, a further consequence of the floods, most of the railway lines are out of action. For over a fortnight no trains ran on the Peiping-Hankow line south of Paotingfu; and in the last few days even that place is cut off.
The Peiping-Suiyuan line is broken in many places; the new line to Jehol via Kupéikow is com-Dletely out of action; all the bridges between here and Kupeikow, which were only temporary structures have been swept away.
'The loop line, constructed by the Japanese Army,' to connect the Pel-'And it is a fairly sate prediction that ping-Hankow line - with Kaifeng, American nationals will now be which was laid across the former bed treated with considerably greater care of the Yellow River, has been comand tenderness than hitherto. British pletely washed away. The Chinese, circles comment that it is a pity that with their thousands of years of ex: the British Government did not think perience of the pranks of that famous of a similar step some time ago: It river, would never have made such might have saved a lot of unpleasant-a mistake as to Jay a railway embankment across one of its old channels.
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