.Sumo. idea. -,ot thu extent..;, ,of llio <lopcU lay waste villages along the .valley -of;.the .great: Yangste Jti.ve;r in. vais given to .tho .Canterbury branch s*F... (tlva-. 1 .Sanitpry: institute, when aelett'er was read from Mr Gl Mi, .^tarsh,. chief, health inspector in Shanghai. -In -,one of tlio biggest floqds,;:ho said, when a.hu.ndred .thousand .people- were drowned) ..an .aerial survey of the area: royealed th a t for six lumd'red. niiles'.ft'onv its mouth , the Ypnghso had flooded thirty miles ,pn either side, and to’ a lesser extent for another two- or three hundred miles.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12704, 8 November 1935, Page 4
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