FLOODS IN CHINA
HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE
(United Press Association—By Electric I „ Telegraph—Copyright.)
(Received this day'at 9.30 a.m.) IIONG KONG, July 31. lv all tin- .in hi.- Us of a hoTi.o for the aged at Canton, perished by (floods, ,which resulted in more than two hundred deaths and a million do'lars damage. The rapid rise of the river was augmented by a torrential deluge which submerged many suburbs. Many lives were lost through houses collapsing and fins breaking out,
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 August 1932, Page 5
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