Dairen, Jan. 10.
The New Year has arrived with due festivities and one comfort which y had ior some December 31, to days there was a y of water in all parts of the township. But this was only a ientalizing glimpse of other* and better days as immediately after the city fathers clamped down again with their stern edict of three hours of water a day and no more, This, however, is not quite all it sounds apart from a certain mockery in the selection of. the hours, which are from 11 am. till 2 pin. for one part of the port and from 2 to 5 p.m, for the other. For most of the working persons here a oath is something read of or unhappily remembered. There are, to be sure certain places where baths can be had, such as the large hotels, which are fortunate in having huge tanks on the roof. But the minor householder is not able to command such luxurious aid.
There is more to it. Dairen is a city of many hills and many declivities, Those in the declivities are more or less sure of a gushing supply during the three hours that are permitted. Those on the hilltops feel themselves lucky if enough trickles into the bath to fill it during the time so that some of the more stern necessities of sanitation may be complied with partially.
But help is at hand or at least on ihe way as the Dairen newspapers loudly proclaim the fact that by summer the supply of water wull be greatly increased and that by 1945 when the sixth water expansion Scheme is completed there will be three times as much water for the city as there is at present. Citizens are hoping that this is for a normal or average year and not based on the present inadequate supply.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.