Telegrams to the following effect have been received by the Shanghai Native Committee for the Relief of the Sufferers by the Floods and handed to us for publication. They are dated the 1st and 2nd of August, and have been sent by the Committee's agents, Messrs. Yen, Sie and Sheng who are at the scene of the recent breach at Chang-kiu. These telegrams bring the first intimation of their being a breach in the northern as well as in the southern embankments, which was foreshadowed in our Tientsin correspondent's recent: account of the muddy waters and strange fish that were pouring into the Peiho from the Grand Canal. The district now flooded on the north of the Yellow River covers more than half the country between Chinan-fu and the sea, and instead of saying that the embaukments have broken, it would probably be more correct to any that the river, being unable to get to the sea through the silting-up of its mouth, has converted the low land on both sides of the latter part of its course into an enormous inland sea, The telegrams are as follows:—7
It is reported that the great daxt at: Pei-leh Kow (4€4#(]) has burst and that Tsi-yang Hien is surrounded by the water. If true, Hui-min (BR), Pin Chow (9), Chen-hwa (9&4), and Hai-fung (3%) Districts must have suffered the full brunt of the flood. Money is urgently needed to save life,
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