Terrific Toll In Flood
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Received Mojiday, ? p.m. July 18. The United Pjiess Hong . Kong eorrespondent says . 20,000,000 Chinese are reported to be homeless as the result of. tho floods. The Nationalikt t Government 's Home Minister, Gene'ral Li Han fluen, said 57,000 Iiad been drowned in Hunan Province. where 5,000,000 ' were homeless and 5,000,000 acbes of ri^e fields were destroyed in the worst flood for 50 years. ' r
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Chronicle (Levin), 19 July 1949, Page 5
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