FLOODS IN CHINA
DYKES OF GRAND CANAL BURST VILLAGES INUNDATED. REFUGEES FLOCKING INTO TIENTSIN. Sy Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright TIENTSIN, August 3. As a result of the beginning of the monsoon rains, Tientsin among many centres in North China is threatened with floods.
The Haiho river is rising rapidly and is only three feet below the level of the British Concession. Hundreds of refugees already are pouring into Tientsin.
The dykes of the Grand Canal have burst and many nearby villages are inundated.
The flooding of the Yellow river is expected to be infinitely worse than that of last summer when hundreds of thousands of Chinese were drowned and 2,000,000 left homeless. The banks and dykes of the Yellow river have fallen into dangerous disrepair as a result of the war. The waters are rising in several provinces.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 August 1939, Page 5
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