NORTH CHINA FLOODS
CHECK TO INVADERS THOUSANDS 11OMELElAS (Reed. July 29, 9 a.m.) LONDON, July 27. A. report from Pekin, states that torrential rains and disastrous floods stopped the Japanese operations in Nprth China. Thousands of people were rendered homeless. The town of Tungchow was engulfed. Only one of four railways from Pcivin is operating. Hundreds of houses in Pekin collapsed.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20002, 29 July 1939, Page 5
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61NORTH CHINA FLOODS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20002, 29 July 1939, Page 5
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