FLOOD TOLL IN CHINA
Two Thousand Lives Lost MANY THOUSANDS HOMELESS Surge From Yellow River TEN FEET DEEP IN TOWN. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegrapn Copyright.) Received 10.15 a.m to-duv. PEKING, Aug. 23. While the latest reports from Shantung indicate that floods t?;ere are becoming worse, foreign advices from Hunan give details of new havoc caused bv the Yellow River. Over 500 villages in a single district have been inundated and 300.000 thousand people are homeless and without food and clothing. Crops were completely ruined.
Shansi also is suffering terribly. The water in one town rose to a. height of ten feet, causing the collapse of hundreds of houses. It is estimated that 2000 lives were lost bv drowning.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 24 August 1933, Page 5
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