FLOOD DISASTER
CHINESE SUFFER A THOUSAND DROWNED. MANY MORE DESTITUTE. (V CABLE— PRESS 4SSOCT ATION—COPYRIGHT Received 10.15 a.m, to-day. SHANGHAI, July 13. More than a thousand natives in southern Anhwei were drowned and many thousands are destitute and homeless through a sudden rise in a Yangtsze tributary, amounting to ten feet °in a few hours. The Hood inundated all the villages on both banks, ami several miles of dykes 1 t.avc been broken. Tremendous, loss of property occurred, and thousands of head of cattle have perished. Crops have been ruined, and all buildings and farms swept away. Appeals for aid have been broadcast, intimating that unless immediate measures are adopted, thousands more will perish from exposure and starvation. Sampans and junks as a. moans of rescue me pitiful lv small, and many craft were overcrowded and capsized, the occupants being drowned. _______
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 14 July 1927, Page 5
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