CHINESE FLOODS
PLAGUE OUTBREAK (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). (Received this day at 9.25 a.in) SHANGHAI, August 13. A..fire is sweeping sections of Hankow unchecked, the inundated streets preventing means of combati g it. Plague is spreading. Huge quantities of lima, required for medical purposes, are detained through the anti-Japanese boycott pickets at Shanghai, owing to its Japanese origin. Hundreds of .thousands of homeless people are sheltering on dyke tops and embankments or perched on tree tops, clinging to their scattered possessions, awaiting the subsidence of the floods which is unlikely to take place if or weeks. An air mail from Shanghai arrived at Hankow, nose dived and broke the propellor while seeking the landing stage. The crew and passengers were rescued. . .
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 August 1931, Page 5
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122CHINESE FLOODS Hokitika Guardian, 14 August 1931, Page 5
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