FLOODS IN CHINA.
20,000 SQUARE MILES INUNDATED. REMOVAL OF CAPITAL. Australian-N.Z. Cable Association. Received Oct. 10, 5.5 p.m. Reuter Service. Shanghai, Oct. 3. There are enormous floods in North China, in a densely populated area. Twenty thousand square miles have become an immense deep Jake. There i s a likelihood of Tientsin becoming icebound and uninhabitable, and the removal of the capital from Peking may be necessary owing to the instability of communications.
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 October 1917, Page 5
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73FLOODS IN CHINA. Taranaki Daily News, 11 October 1917, Page 5
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