FLOODS IN TIENTSIN
STATE OF EMERGENCY
BLOCKADE RELAXED
(Received August 21, 9 a.m.) ! TIENTSIN, August 20. Protective walls of sandbags have been hurriedly built in the foreign. | concessions as a result of the rapid rise !of flood waters. The Japanese electrij fied barricades are almost submerged, and the Japanese military road is only eight inches above water. Chinese refugees are pouring in to the concessions. The British municipality has proclaimed a state of flood emergency as from 6 a.m. on August 21. Flooding of the entire British and .French concessions is inevitable. The palatial i Foreign Country Club racecourse is four feet under water, and the whole country is a vast expanse of water. The Japanese sentries are relaxing the blockade. Russian dairymen were per- | mitted to drive in cattle, and . eight trucks of vegetables entered without [ being searched.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 44, 21 August 1939, Page 9
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139FLOODS IN TIENTSIN Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 44, 21 August 1939, Page 9
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