FLOODS IN CHINA.
YELLOW RIVER OVERFLOWS.
VAST DAMAGE CAUSED. Australian and N.Z. Press Association. SHANGHAI, Aug. 9. ' Damage done by floods near Peking, which caused the Yellow River to overflow, is assuming the proportions of a catastrophe. As a consequence, of further rains many villages in the provinces of liopei and Shantung have been inundated, and 500,000 villagers are desolated. The river embankments have collapsed and the Peking-Suiyan railway has been washed out.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20331, 12 August 1929, Page 9
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