Request for Early Aid: Nine Hundred Villages Involved Peking, Sept. 15, In connexion with the reported floods in Shantung, the Famine Relief Committee at Tsinanfu recently telegraphed to Peking stating that a dyke had broken, but reports regarding damage and casualties have been conflicting. It is know however, that conditions ara bad and lief work will be started soon, Sept. 17.
The China International Famine Relief Commission to-day received the following telegram from ite Shantung Committee:—
"The south dyke of the Yellow River has broken at Yun-chenghsien and has flooded area 40 li wide and 200 long. The break is wide and the rier has changed its course, Nine hundred villages are surrounded by water. All crops have been destroyed. Bouts are the only means of communication between villages, "Emergency relief has started, with Yuneherg as headquarters, The Committee requests the Commission's engineer to visit the break £8 soon as josabile advise Tegarding the wezion needed to eon trol the river."
The Executive Secretary and the Chief Enginas of the DERE. wre leaving Pexing for the flooded: area at once.—Reuter's Pacific Ser
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