The Chiza International Famine Relief Commission reports from Peking, Avgust 20, that at least 82,000 people were stated to have been suffering from lack of liveli hood a8 the result of floods in the districts of Linchu and Anchiu, Shantung, on July 24. These two districts lie to the south of the Tsinan-Tsingtao Railway, and are regions rot hitherto reported as famine-stricken. The floods came from the Wen Ho and Mi Ho. The extent of damage done has been reported as follows:
In Linchu, 198 villages affected, 1.500 people drowned, at least 24, (000 suffered from lack of livelihood; 27 villages in Anchiu have been affected, the floods drowning 300 people acd depriving 8,000 of necessities of life. The C. I. F.
Shantung Committee has despatched @ special agent with $5,000 for immediate relief work there.
The latest locust report indicates that, along the Tientsin-Pukow Tine, south of Tawenkau and north of Lincheng, in a stretch about 100 li wide, "the promising crops of kaoliang' and millet have been totally destroyed by the recent Tue Chinese: papers say that the suburbs of Tainan are under two feet of water and that the Taming Lake has overflowed its banks, More than 30 villages have been inundated.
Magsnat Chang Hsueh-liang is reported by the "Eastern Times" to have ordered Gen. Yang Vu-ting te recapture Hulunbor, which has been annexed by Moscow masquerading as Outer Mongolia.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.