About the middle of the second week of July rain feel' in torrents for three days. Kaifeng was one great lake. Water from one to three feet in depth covered the streets. Hundreds of the homes of the poor crashed throughout the various suburbs were levelled with the ground. Stories
similar conditions prevailed in many ume in from the outside world, thas places.
Letters from Kueiteh said that a river from the northwest run ning southeast had crossed the big. famine road, a mile north of the city. Situation Growing Graver Daily: This was where no river had been before. Passengers from here to Peking. had to break their journey north of Changteh on account of the wa away of the railway bridges in Lin-chang county. Fears were freely expressed that the Yellow River would break is banks and inundate the country. It was written from Kweiteh that it was Yellow River water.
Flood Fears not Realized The rain continues by moderately und according to expectation. The fear that after the continued drougi the excessive rain would continu and complete the ruin that the drought had begun, has not at all been realized. In some of the lower areas of the province, especially north of the Yellow River, and along the Wel River Valley' there are flooded lands. Similar conditions prevail between Si Ping Hsien and Yencheng city and just above ths But, from the rains more than the mere. discomfort. The Honan fields never: looked better at this time of the n they do at the very present time. So far from the Yellow River making any threats, at pr2- sent there is no great volume of water passing down its channel, This will probably mean that there is still a drought in Shensi. The Loh River at Yuencheng is on the conrary very fil, its muddy waters lapping the rails of the great iron bridge of the Chin-Han Railway. This water is from the Hills in the western part of the province, those hills that have harboured the Honax bandit hordes during the past few. years.
At present the great fear of ruinquent horror and the whom up prayers of audibly or by
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