FLOOD CALAMITY

Grey River Argus, 11 August 1931, Page 5

FLOOD CALAMITY

IN CHINA , i i. Ten Thousand Drowned MILLIONS MENACED. (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) (Received • August 10 at 8.45 p.m.) SHANGHAI, August 10. There is a most disastrous flood situation at Hankow. 'The flbod has followed on several weeks’ rain. The situation has now assumed the proportions of a national calamity, and it is affecting iiiestimable millions ■of people. The .entire city of Hankow is inundated to a dept]} of several feet. The Yangtze Kiang River has risen to a record level. It is'in places mol’d than sixty feet above 'i,ts normal level. Plague is now spreading, and there is aii acute food shortage. Ten thousand people have already been drowned, including several hunTired convicts, who were trapped. Five thousand sampans are replacing the rickshaws in the‘city’s transportation. Business is almost at a standstill. Foreign firms are requiring food from Shanghai. A twenty million dollar food relief fund is being opened by the Government.