INUNDATION IN CHINA.
THOUSANDS DROWNED. - (l)T TELEGRAPH—ntESS ASSOCIATION—COPIItIGnT.) Sydney, Jtfiy 22. Eastern nows shows that_ tho heaviest floods for thirty years recently occurred in the valleys in South China. • , : Thousands of persons were drowned, and many more thousands rendered homeless and starving. Hundreds aro pillaging tho country, and it is feared many .will join the regular brigands. Tho - Government 1 and the public are contributing large sums ] for relief purposes. , . Commerce in South China will receive a severe check. The harvest has been destroyed.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 257, 23 July 1908, Page 7
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84INUNDATION IN CHINA. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 257, 23 July 1908, Page 7
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