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[REUTERS TEr.EC.IAM9.] EVEREST AGAIN. DDLtUI, August 13. Speaking at Darjeeling, 'Mr Bruce, leader of the Everest Expedition said another attempt will bo made next year. CHINESE FLOODS. THO US AN US DROWNED (Received Inis dav at 9.2 d a.ni.) PEKIN, August 12. A devastating Hood, involving appalling loss of life and damage tn widespread areas in China is taking place. Many towns and villages and cnorinotiso tracts of country are submerged. Tientsin was in imminent danger of inundation owing to tbc volume of waters passing seaward. Chinese soldiers are working day and night at the dykes holding hack the Hood, thus largely contributing to saving the city. Westward and northward of Tientsin two thousand villages are submerged. Flood victims are pouring into Fokin. At Klagan [our thousand were drowned as the result of dykes bursting. Belated reports from the provinces of Cliilhi, Honan, Hunan, and Kwangtung, confirm the widespread devastation and imminence of a famine. An approximate estimate of the total drowned is in the vicinity ol lift.v thousand, while the homeless unlit number several millions.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 August 1924, Page 3
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178MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. Hokitika Guardian, 14 August 1924, Page 3
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