FLOOD PICTURES
NEED FOR ASSISTANCE. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copy right.) (Received this day at 1.0 p.in.) SHANGHAI, September 6. Tlie clearest picture drama of Hankow floods is contained in/ a. statement from the National Flood Relief Commission, outlining the relief requirements. The preliminary estimates states that ten million- need succouring lor six months. A million tons of foodstuffs are necessary to carry the population through the winter, hence America’s surplus wheat shipment of 450,0(X> tous, purchased by Nanking Government. Jt is considered only half sufficient for relief work in Yangtse Valley. The rice crop is expected to yield a. third of the usual, the deficiency representing two hundred million bushels. There will be a proportionate- drop in the vegetable crops. The river is steadily dropping and pumping has commenced, and a hospital ship is outfitting and shortly leaving for upriver. Refugee camps at Shanghai are springing up everywhere and thousands of refugees are arriving daily.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 September 1931, Page 5
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