CHINESE FLOOD DISASTER
thousand deaths daily
(United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph.—Copyright.)
(Received this day at 9.25 a.m) SHANGHAI, August 23
Fearing starvation, Shansi troops are deserting to join ,the Reds, increasing the menace to Hankow, vyhere the deaths were a thousand daily. The bodies cannot be buried and are floating n/id spreading disease, which lias broken out in the refugee concentration camps.
Aerial surveys revealed fifty-seven thousand square miles are deluged.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 August 1931, Page 5
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71CHINESE FLOOD DISASTER Hokitika Guardian, 24 August 1931, Page 5
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