300,000 HOMELESS.
OVER 500 VILLAGES INUNDATED (Received 9.10 a in.) United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph —Copyright. PEKING. August 23. While the latest reports from Shantung report that the tloods there are l*ecoming worse, foreign advices from Hunan give details cf the neuliavoc caused by the Yellow River. Over 500 villages in a single district have been inundated. 300.000 people are homeless, and are w :thout food and clothing. Crops are completely ruined. Shansi is also suffering terribly. The water in one town is lo feet- deep, causing the collapse of hundreds of houses. It is estimated that 2000 lost their lives by drowning.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12430, 24 August 1933, Page 5
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103300,000 HOMELESS. Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12430, 24 August 1933, Page 5
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