HIGH FLOODS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23431, 22 August 1939, Page 10

HIGH FLOODS

NORTHERN CHINA TIENTSIN INUNDATED CONCESSIONS INVOLVED -STREAM OP REFUGEES By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright (Recoived August 21,' s.fi p.m.) ; „ TIENTSIN, Aug. 20 Protective walls and sandbags are being hurriedly built at the Tientsin Concessions as tho result of the rapid rise of flood waters. The Japanese electrified barricades are almost submerged, and their military road is only Bin. above water. Chinese refugees are pouring into the .concessions. The British municipality has proclaimed a state of flood emergency as from 6 a.m. to-morrow, as the flooding of the entire British and French Concessions is inevitable. The palatial Country Club racecourse is 4ft. under water. The whole of the countryside is a vast expanse of water. Tho flood waters cut off the electricity and plunged tho city into darkness this evening. They swamped tho .Japanese blockade areas, where the gentries mounted boxes and barrels. Thousands of Chinese have rushed into tho foroign zone, which is tho hardest hit. British residents have appealed to the Lord Mayor' of London for aid. The crest of the flood is two days distant. Russian dairymen were permitted to drive in cattle, and oight trucks of vegetables entered without search. PALESTINE SKIRMISH REVIVAL OF REVOLT EfRITISH OFFICER KILLED Lieutenant rivett-carnac ' LONDON, Aug. 20 in the course of suppressing a revival of a revolt Lieutenant C. Rivett-Carnac, of the Sherwood Fores,J ters, two Jews, one Arab and 15 rebels were killed and three privates wounded in a skirmish at Deir Hannah after the dispersal of 40 rebels, 10 of whom wero wounded, says the Jerusalem correspondent of the Times. / ' Lieutenant Clive Rivett-Carnac was a eon of the late Mr. C. J. Rivett-Carnac, formerly of the Indian Civil Service, and later financial adviser to the King of Siam. He was also a second cousin of Commodore J. W. RivettCarnac, commodore commanding the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy, Lieutenant Rivett-Carnac was educated at Winchester and Sandhurst and left* Sandhurst about five years ago. . In 1936 he represented the English public schools in rifle shooting. He was with his. regiment in Jamaica for some time. Commodore Rivett-Carnac met him there in 1937 when the cruiser Leander v'as on its way out to New Zealand. ' SMUGGLED JEWS

ARRESTS IN PALESTINE / LONDON, Aug. 20 , The marine control authorities in Palestine seized 840 illegal Jewish immigrants in s three vessels, mostly from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia, who were travelling via Bhodes, says the Jerusalem correspondent of the Times. The majority were quarantined in . other immigrant homes.