FEARFUL FLOODS
CHINESE CALAMIfY IMMENSE AREA SWAMPED. AT LEAST 80,000 DROWNED. *i - [United Press Association -By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright! (Received 11 a.m.) SHANGHAI, July 18. It is estimated that 2000 square miles of Shantung province are inundated by flood waters. fourteen thousand bodies have been recovered in the two cities of Hupeh
province. The death roll is at least 50,000, and the Yellow River floods are believed to have drowned 30,000.
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Northern Advocate, 19 July 1935, Page 7
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