China floods subside
NZPA-Reuter Peking Floodwaters were subsiding yesterday along the middle stretch of the Yangtze River Valley in central China, the New China News Agency reports. The central flood control headquarters said that the flood crest had passed Hukou, in Jiangxi province,
where the large Poyang Lake that feeds the river had been filling rapidly, endangering the homes of more than 300,000 people.
Some of the worst flooding occurred in this area, where China’s largest river breached its dikes in more than 50 places, after two weeks of torrential rain. No further information was available on the situa-
tion farther downstream in Anhui and Jiangsu provinces where local newspapers reaching Peking said that the sick and elderly were being taken away from the path of approaching floodwaters. Anhui, where at least 90 have been killed by the floods, was the only province which had reported casualties.
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