SEVERE FLOODS IN CHINA
PEASANTS LABOUR TO SAVE CROPS
HONG KONG, June 11
Heavy out-of-season rainstorms have flooded vast stretches of farmland in the granary of east Central China near Nanking, and the- wheat and soya bean crops are threatened, Radio Peking reports tonight. In a Chinese-language broadcast the radio said that in the northern Anhwei Province 1,210.000 peasants are labouring by day and night to get their crops in. At night lamrs are shone on the flooded fields to save what can be saved.
The radio did- not say how much farmland was under water, but it said that in the Pengpu area alone, northwest of Nanking, 187,000 acres have been drained.
In some places, it added, the field? are flooded to a depth of 2ft 4in.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27993, 13 June 1956, Page 13
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