CHINESE DISASTERS
FLOODS AND CHOLERA. (United Press Association—By Electric . Telegraph—Copyright.) j CANTON, August 2. kj Floods and cholera were loosed at three sections of China to-day, taking heavy toll in lives and property. The rampaging Chu-Kiang, Canton river, 'whose tributaries have been filled t<i> overflowing by torrential rains, . has,,defiiolishod 600 houses and drowned 500 person's at Canton proper, , i; find thousands are homeless. ; . r a-faiio In Western- Shansi Province lmy Biver has battered down its dyke?., -'jriulUdating thirty towns. and lqaviiig 56,060 ‘homeless. •!#} »; Torrential rains and floods • Keiliang have done tens of milliojns.pt. dollars' worth' of damage and there ,are reports that a food shortage for the winteiv is threatened.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 August 1932, Page 6
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