(2) The High Authorities in Kiangsu and the Director-General of the Grain Transport present a memorial explaining the measures they intend to take to prevent the northern part of Kiangsu from being flooded by the water escaped from the Yellow River. On the 10th of October the Viceroy Tseng had reached Yang-chow en route for Peking, when he received a telegram from the Viceroy at Tientsin, communicatiug to him an Imperial Decree by which he was directed to postpone his visit. He then proceeded to Ch'ing-chiang Pu and met there Director-General Lu Shih-chieh, who had just received from Honan a copy of a memorial to the Throne giving particulars of the calamity. The two elficers spent several days in close consultation. They could not but foresee the imminent pend which would ensue as soon as the Yellow River poured its angry flood into the Hung-tse Lake, whence there was no proper channel to the sea, The Huai River empties itself into the same lake, the outflow from which is into the two Prefectures of Huni-an and Yang-chow. These prefectures are in great danger every year when the water rises high; and this danger must be multiplied many times when the raging flood of the Yellow River is added to the waters of the Huai, The first precautions to take are naturally those adopted in ordinary times. Acourdingly orders have been given to sce that the sluices, breakwaters, and earth-mounds in
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