Chinese Floods a National Calamity
Inestimable Millions Affected
Yangtze Rises Sixty Feet Above Normal
United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Monday, 9.50 p.m. SHANGHAI, Aug. 10. The flood situation at Hankow following several weeks’ rain has assumed the proportions of a national calamity affecting inestimable millions. The entire city is inundated several feet. The Yangtze river has reached a record level and is in places more than sixty feet above normal. Plague is spreading and there is an acute food shortage. Ten thousand have already been drowned, including several hundred convicts who were trapped. Five thousand sampans are replacing rickshaws in the city’s transportation. Business is almost at a standstill. Foreign firms are requesting food from Shanghai. A twenty million dollar flood relief fund is being opened by the Government.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6625, 11 August 1931, Page 7
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