60,000 Homeless in Enhsien, Shantung: Yangtze Falling at Hankow The lutest information received from Shantung by the China International Famine Relief Committee shows that the break in the Grand Canal dyke has already flooded over 150 villages in the Enhsien area. At least 60,000 people, whose crops: fare "totally destroyed, have been affected.
Two reassuring reports have been received from different parts of the country C. 1.
The first information is from Foochow and points out that though the damage in the district lof Yuchi was estimated as amount jing to over 812,000,000, this figure has not yet been verified and may prove 0 have been exaggerated. Other districts, however, have not yet reported so that the situation Stil "remains uncertain until eyewitness's accounts become available.
'A telegram has also been rece from the Commission's represontative in Hankow in which ho states that the Yangtze river is steadily falling and has already receded three feet below its highest pint this year. It will will be remembered that at one time it had flooded the front of most of the Conces-ins and considerable anxiety vas being felt as to its further progress.
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