Outwardly Shanghai presented the spectacle of a normal city yesterday with the resumption of classes of some schools which were suspended owing to the flood. The continuance of fine weather also brought in its train an optimistic view of the situation and the hope that by Monday next the cly would have shaken off the last vestiges of Shanghai's invasion by water this year. An official of the Public Works Department of the Council is responsible for the statement that the city will not see the last of the inundation before that time. He pointed that two of the big pumps of his department were draining the Settlement of at least 3,000,000 gallons of water a day, operating on a 24-hour shift.
Owing to the submergence of boiler rooms, many residents of apartments yesterday were deprived of hot water. The Bubbling Well district from Hardoon Road east, which was badly flooded, saw a complete draining of the flood waters yesterday and traffic conditions were fully restored, while Nanking Road was dry along its entire length.
The subsiding of the waters in the Western district will prove a long and laborious affair, according to an authoritative source, owing to its low level.
A Chinese report stated that Minghong had come in for a greater share of flooding than Shanghai.
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