FLOOD MENACE IN CHINA
NEW PROTECTIVE SYSTEM (Rec. 9 p.m.) NEW DELHI, July 17. New China is rapidly conquering the age-old flood menace which regularly affects 400,000,000 peasants living in river basins, according to Indian engineers who have returned from an inspection tour. The engineers spent two months studying Chinese river projects. They said the peasants were building an efficient system of dyke protection at a “unique speed.’’ Working with hardly any machinery in the Hwai basin in north-east China, they completed a canal 100 miles long and 420 feet wide in 80 days. Western-style amenities on the site such as theatres, libraries, schools and hospitals and a guaranteed minimum wage helped to get the peasants’ full co-operation, the Indian engineers said in a press report. The delegation went to China to get information for their own scheme starting this year to control the river Kosi, India’s “river of sorrow.”
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27405, 19 July 1954, Page 9
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