According to a decree of the 28th ultimo E-k'-tang-a, Tartar General of Fengtien and Military Governor of Moukden, reports that on the 20th and 21st of July last the Yalu river districts of Antung and Tatung-kou were visited by violent rains, followed by an immense tidal wave which overwhelmed and destroyed an immense number of houses of the inhabitants, sweeping aay whole villages in the vid drowning and burying in the rains many people. Upon receiving this disastrous news the memorialist immediately despatched officers with emergency funds for the distribution of relief to the survivors. "We are deeply grieved," the decree goes on to say, at the receipt of this news and con-mand E-ké t'ing-' and his colleagues to dispense charity on a liberal scale as a token of our deep sympathy for our poor suffering people, the seaside districts being especially barren and poor. Let not any: of the sufferers be overlooked when relief is being distributed." Another decree of the same date further notes memorials by the same Tartar General reporting the inundation of East and West Mokouying, belonging to the district of Haichéng, caused by the overflowing of the banks of the Lino river, and another inundation in the district of Kaiping, Regent's Sword, all of which caused immense destraction of property and lives. Relief is also ordered to he dispensed immediate];
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