FLOOD HAVOC.
300,000 Homeless in One District. CHINA SUFFERS SEVERELY. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.. (Received August 24, 9.10 a.m.) PEKIN, August 23. While the latest reports from Shantung report that the floods there are becoming worse, foreign advices from Hunan give details of new havoc caused by the Yellow River. Over 500 villages in a single district have been inundated and 300,000 people are homeless and without food or clothing. Their crops have been completely ruined. Shansi is also suffering terribly. The water in one town is ten feet deep, causing the collapse of hundreds of houses. It is estimated that 2000 have lost their lives by drowning.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 849, 24 August 1933, Page 1
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