UNPRECEDENTED DISASTER.
GREAT FLOODS AT HANKOW. DEATH AND DEVASTATION. 1 awful effects of famine. AMERICAN WHEAT BOUGHT. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received August 26. 11.45 p.m.) SHANGHAI. August 26. Another severe storm is raging in the flooded Hankow districts and is increasing the deaths and devastation. Roof-tops, crowded with refugees, col- ! lapsed dining the storm and thousands who were separated for days from death by a few inches of freeboard, were hurled to a watery grave. The disaster surpasses anything in the history of China. Starvation is turning human beings into beasts. A message from the Foreign Minister, Dr C. T. Wang, states that the purchase of 378.000 tons of American wheat for 40,000.000 dollars has been negotiated.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20962, 27 August 1931, Page 11
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117UNPRECEDENTED DISASTER. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20962, 27 August 1931, Page 11
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