A party, including famine relict and Ghihit River Commission offelals, correspondents and a cinematographer, this morning Mew over the flooded areas of Peking and Tien. tsin in an aeroplane placed at their disposal by the Director of Avia-The party was piloted tothe north winter sowing was killed drought, now the autumn and winter by ridge of the Hsi Ho, which yesterday rose to the 1917 maximum. crops are ruined by floods. It is a question whether there will be any Seen perilously near, the top of the crop next spring. dykes and the railways did not appear to be in immediate danger Too Great a Responsibility though the water was lying at the In consequence of the Civil foot of the embankments on both Governor's refusal to release the sides for many miles. Most of the Ho, a greater and greater strain Villages were high and dry but it fs put on the Hai Ho, which, by was evident that the farmers the labours of the"Hai Ho Conser-be hard hit—Reuter's Pacific Ser-fancy Board, has already done
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