FLOODS IN CHINA.
iENORMOUS LOSS OF LIFE. 1 J TWO THOUSAND DROWNED. i _____ J FLEET OF JUNKS DESTROYED. 1 By Telegraph—Pre** Association.—Copyright. Pejus, April 14. ! Disastrous floods have occurred in } the Han Kiang River, in Sonth-east-j crn China. | Two thousand Chinese living on , the banks of the river, and on the ! river itself, were drowned. Many junks moored in the river ; were torn away from their moorings j by the fierce current, and no less S than 700 were destroyed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13726, 16 April 1908, Page 5
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