YANGTSZE FLOODS
WIDESPREAD HAVOC
RUINED CROPS AND DAMAGE.
(United Pr e &s Association—By Electric
Telegraph—CoFY rl S ht d
(Receved this day at 10.30 ».m.) PEKING, August 23.
While the latest reports from Shantung report that th© floods there were becoming worse, foreign advices from Hunan give details of new havoc caused by the Yellow River.
Over five hundred villages in a single district have been inundated, and 300,000 people are homeless, and without food and clothing. Crops have, been completely ruinedShansi is also suffering terribly the water ‘in one town being ten feet deep, causing the collapse of hundreds of houses.
It is estimated that tw 0 thousand lives have been lost by drowning.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 August 1933, Page 5
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