CHINESE DISASTER
A HEARTENING PICTURE FLOOD, FIRE AND PLAGUE [By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright] SHANGHAI, Aug. 13. Fire is sweeping sections of Hankow unchecked and the inundated streets are preventing means of combating it Plague is spreading and huge quantities of lime required for medical pur poses have been detained through th? anti-Japanese boycott by pickets Shanghai owing to its Japanese origin
Hundreds of thousands of homeless people are sheltering on dyke tops, embankments, and perched on tree top*', clinging to their scattered possessions awaiting a subsidence of the floods which is unlikely for weeks.
The air mail ’plane from Shanghai arriving at Hankow nose-dived and broke tho propeller when seeking a landing stage. The crew and passengers were rescued.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 192, 15 August 1931, Page 7
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