Two thousand million gallons of water have fallen on the International Settlement (including the Western "outside roads" area to the Railway) since the rains started last Saturday night, according to an estimate made last night.
This staggering figure is based on calculations which indicate that approximately 200,000,000 gallons of water represent the precipitation. throughout the area when one inch of rain falls evenly. It is figured that up to yesterday evening about ten inches of rain had fallen,
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