The Governor of Shantung reports the closing of three breaches in the embaukments "f the Yellow' River. There is one great gap, however, at Paimnofen near the river's mouth, with which he has not yet deen able to deal successfully. After the rupture in the wall at this spot, it seems that (as so often is the case) a large sandbank formed just "opposite it on the further side of the channel. The obstruction so made deflected the stream and drove it with more violence than ever against the aperture, which was thus increased to a length of more then 1400 feet, with a depth of water varying between thirty and forty feet. Though wider breaches have been closed lately, the task here will be of unusual difficulty, owing to the depth of the water and the force with which the stream is directed against the place. There is further inconvenience frum the fact that many repairs having been effected of late years in this neighbourhood the stock of millet stalks in the surrounding neighbourhood has altogether been exhausted. Officials have therefore been sent further inland to purchase materials, and in the meantime General Wang Te-K'uei has been directed to employ two Dattalions of soldiers in digging a temporary channel to draw off sume of the water and relieve the pressure at the breach.
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