FLOOD CALAMITY
L United Preao ABOocinbion,-—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. J
TEN THOUSAND DROWNED
MILLIONS MENACED
SHANGHAI, August 10
There is a most disastrous flood situation at Hankow. The flood has followed on several weeks’ rain. The situation has now assumed the proportions of a national calamity, and it is affecting inestimable millions of people. The entire city of Hankow is inundated to a depth of several feet. The Yangtze Kiang River has risen to a record level. It is in places more than sixty feet above? its normal level.
Plague is now spreading, and there is an acute food shortage. . Ten thousand people have already been drowned, including several hundred convicts, who were trapped. Five thousand sampans are replacing the rickshaws in the city’s transportation.
Business is almost ‘at a standstill. Foreign firms are requiring food from Shanghai.
A twenty million dollar foo’d relief fund is being opened by the Government. \
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 August 1931, Page 5
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