FLOODS IN CHINA
YANGTSE WATERS ~9 THOUSANDS DROWNED TERRIBLE FATE OF CONSCRIPTED COOLIES - - ” • -**!• . * * ' ' • United Press Association—By'■ Electric Telegraph—Copyright Australian Press Association^ SHANGHAI, Bth August. ''' An abnormal rise in the water of the Yangtse gorges flooded Vast areas on the right and left riverbankg, and drowned thousands; Reports from Hankow state i.that’jtijpj waters rose twenty feet in a few hours in. certain tributaries of the Yangtse and, 65 feet in the gorges themselves, *' - Hundreds of dead bodies are! floating downstream, ' Many junks capsized and thousands, were flung helplessly into the rushing waters. Three junks filled with ; con -■ scripted coolies seized by the military"' at Hankow and transported to Honan, were upset, and 2000, with hands . tied, and roped together, were drowned. •;.* Several foreign gorges steamers ■. had miraculous escapes from crashing op to the rocks. . ... t. .....
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 9 August 1928, Page 5
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