Frantic Efforts to Save the Northern Suburbs: Grand Canal Rising Rapidly Tientsin, Aug. 5.
Those who scoffed at' the flood "scare" will now find it difficult to justify their attitude says the "Pound Tientsin Times.". The floods are now as close to Tientsin as jen tsin West, and frantic efforts jate Leing made, by means of porary emergency dykes, to prove them from spreading right round the:
North suburbs of the City. The water in the Grand Canal is rising pidiy, of was onl to be expect er the Hsi Ho had breached its dyke:
The output of the Haiho continues slowly to decrease, The following are figures, those of the previous day being given for purposes of comparison:
August High Water......am. 145 ft. Low Water and. 133 Max. Velociee' 22/2608 ft per second Mean Velocity Max: Output Min Output:
August 5. am. 16 ft 0 £2. per second 22 et, yor second It is estimated that something like 45,000,000 cub. metres of silt passed through Tientsin in July. Most of it was in suspension, and the silting of the fairway, therefore, not serious. It is fortunate for Tientsin that comparatively little lof the Hunho water' is finding its way out through the Haiho.
The menace to. Tien will remain until the flood waters have in the course of the next few days, more or less along the route which the experts urged should he prepared for them, by cutting dykes and embankments, three weeks ugo, Peking City Walls To Be Repaired. the soldiers of Gen, Feng Vu-hsiang who have been working day and night on the dykes which hold back the flooded waters of the Yung Ting Ho and the Grand Canal, says an agency message.
Close to four thousand flood tims are estimated to have come into Peking by way of the Peking Suiyuan Railway. While many of the refugees found shelter in the homes of friends, others are compelled to sleep out in the open, To alleviate that condition, shelters are being erected outside several of the city gates.
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