DEVASTATING FLOODS.
CHINESE TOWNS DESTROYED. MANY THOUSAND DROWNED. By Telci'ni.ph.- Preps Aiw>ci;il inu. Cop.vricllt Shanghai, Tuesday. A letter from Wenchow slates that floods on August 2!Uh were of the proportions of a tidal wave. The river overwhelmed Tientsing and ten thousand were drowned. The flood entirely destroyed Konoo and washed away several small towns on tho river. Wenchow on tho morning of tho 13th presented a terrible sight. Tho ruins nf numberless homesteads woro floating swiftly seawards where on crouched men, women and children.
It is estimated between thirty and forty thousand were drowned.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 499, 11 September 1912, Page 5
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94DEVASTATING FLOODS. King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 499, 11 September 1912, Page 5
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