Can It Return to the Old Channel which It Deserted in 185:
It hardly seems likely that the Yellow River, now again overflowing banks and discharging more than 360,000 cub.ft. of water per second, will regain its 18 channel, although telegrams from Peking intimate ed that such was possible, Fr hhtened peasants, according to information, broke the dykes at Sh liu, which is no small distance below the divergence from the older channel.
A Shanghai engineer, who has done reclamation work on the Yellow Rive stated that, although the volume of the discharge ever secon had risen from 200,000 cub. ft. per second to 300,000 cub, ft, the fall in the n was but 10 inches in five mites, and there was just a bare chance that, should the flood not go dow the waters might go through the Grand Canal and thence into their old river bed.
In his opinion the flood would not work its way ok to the old break and enter the 1852 channel here. It will be recalled that reclamation work completed in May, 1923, has held the river, this break being 200 miles up-river. The above map shows the eneral lie of the country, the \ded portion indicating where the floods ure at present reported most severe.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.