The Archive · 1888

The Yellow River

Our Correspondent at chinkiang writes:—It is reported that the Yellow River is entering the Yangtze at Huang-pi Hsien in Hupeh, x not very far from Hankow. There are said to be twenty feet of water ata town called Hwang-huei. This seems to be a new development of the eccentric outbursts of China's sorrow.

It is said that the foundation of the new bank at the breach in the Yellow River embankment has at last been laid.

6th March, [It was reported some time since in a vernal cular paper that the flood was extending westward into Hupeh, and it seems to have now found an outlet.

This will account for the comparatival that is entering th moderate quantity of water Yangtze near Chinkiang.

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