NUMEROUS LANDSLIDES.
CASUALTIES IN CHINA. LONDON, July 18. The Daily Express’s Hong Kong correspondent reports that. a long periotl of heavy rains, culminating m a fail of eight inches in four hours, caused numerous landslides. It is feared that many people were killed in Pekin, where thousands of tons of earth and rock collapsed and wrecked a number of houses in tile west of the city. Two hundred Clones© were buried in the debris, and_ only twenty have-been rescued so far’
A later report states that hopes of further rescue of victims of the collapse have been abandoned. Fortythree dead and 18 injured have been recovered. —A. and N.Z. cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 193, 20 July 1925, Page 7
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110NUMEROUS LANDSLIDES. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 193, 20 July 1925, Page 7
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