YANGTSE FLOODING FEARED
APPEAL PGR. ASSISTANCE
WATER, NEAR, TOP OF BUND
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) SHANGHAI, Juno 12. Tho fear is freely expressed at Hankow of the possibility of a repetition of the Yangtse floods of 1931. The river readied 39 feet above the usual low water mark on June 9, which is six inches above the 1931 level at the same date.
Tt is believed that unless the heaivy rain ceases the dykes built in the famine relief last -year will be subjected to a very considerable test.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 13 June 1933, Page 5
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