FIRE AND FLOOD ADD TO HANKOW HORROR
Grave Position in Stricken
Chinese City
PLAGUE SPREADING- WHILE LIME IS BOYCOTTED
United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph. —Copyright. SHANGHAI, Aug. 13.
Fire is sweeping sections of Hankow unchecked. The inundated streets arc preventing means of combatting it. Plague is spreading. Huge quantities of lime required for medical purposes are detained through tho action of anti-Japaneso boycott pickets at Shanghai, owing to the Japanese origin of the lime.
Hundreds of thousands of homeless people are sheltering on dyke-tops and embankments, or are perched < l treetops, and clinging to their scattered possessions, while awaiting tho subsidence of the floods, which is unlikely for weeks.
An air mail plane from ihanghai, on arriving at Hankow, nose-dived and broke its propellor, while seeking the landing-stage. The crow and passengers were rescued.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6628, 15 August 1931, Page 5
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