"Ohina's Sorrow" is again manifest in a flood of tears more destructive than the novelist's most passionate flow. The river has again broken out at Lichin city, and baffles the Governor's. attempts to stop the gap. It is said that he (Li Ping-hong) is on the ground in person superintending, job. Since the recent floods in the Mississippi valley the American has no advice to ive the Orient upon the subject of control-ting its large rivers. Formerly we knew just how it ought to be done. The subjugation of a stream like the Yellow River is a problem not to be solved in a day, Bist May.
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