THOUSANDS LOST
IN CHINESE FLOODS. GREAT AREA INUNDATED. HUGE DEATH ROLL. .(United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph. Copyright.) Received July 19, 10.10 a.m. SHANGHAI, July 18. It is estimated that 2000 square miles of the Shantung Province are inundated by flood waters. Fourteen thousand bodies have been recovered in two cities in Hupeh Province. The death roll is at least 50,000. The Yellow River floods are believed to have drowned 30,000.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 197, 19 July 1935, Page 9
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71THOUSANDS LOST Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 197, 19 July 1935, Page 9
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