HAPLESS HANKOW
FIRE ACCOMPANIES FLOODS CONTAGIOUS DISEASE SPREADS, PEOPLE IN DIRE STRAITS. (United Press Association —By Eleetris Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received 10 a.m.) SHANGHAI, August 13. Fire is sweeping sections of Hankow unchecked, and the inundated bating the flames. streets are preventing means of com* Plague is spreading. Huge quantities of lime required for medical purposes have been detained through the anti-Japanese boycott pickets at Shanghai, owing to its Japanese origin. . '
Hundreds of thousands of homeless people are sheltering on dyke tops and embankments, or are perched, on trees, clinging to their scattered possessions and awaiting the subsidence of the floods. This, however, seems unlikely for weeks.
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Northern Advocate, 14 August 1931, Page 5
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