Seven Hsien Under Ware lief Measures in Hand Kiukiang, July 28, The Makuati dyke at Kiangpeh (on the border between Kiangsi and Hupeh) was broken Inst, week-and fand great damage resulted. Houses collapsed; crops were ruined and. numerous domestic animals drowned, and hundreds of p The inundation covers seven (districts) "about 100 1i in length Jong breadth. As soon as the report reached here, General Li Hung-chen, Defence Commissioner, left, here for Nanchang to sce General Teng Ju-cho, Military Governor, and Mr. Li Ting-kuei, Civil Governor, about ths breaking of his dyke, and at the same ime a committee was sent across the river to investigate conditions.
General Li was then told to be responsible for looking after the suf-forers, so several places in the city here have been turned into shelters for the poor sufferers coming from the other side of the river. The committee returned and said that 150 piculs of rice were needed for immediate relief. More rice will be int to the flooded area and money will be provided by the Nanchang Government. The total number of sufferers ig over 200,000. Tt is said that such a big flood has not been lexperiented for a period of 40 years. More money is said to be coming from Kiangei people residing other provinces for famine relief. Word has been received from Marshal Sun Chuan-fang that a sum of $10,000 for relief will be remitted to Kiangsi in a few day:
According to reports from Hukow {a place on the mouth of Paoyens Lake and 90 li from Kiukiang) a great flood occurred there last week: 400 mao of rice-fields were flooded fand the damage amounted to $200,-
Cuunese Christians, it is reported, are to start a general' campaign and demonstration against opium in this province, commenging on October and lasting till October 9. a coffin, in which he put the amuh, some say alive and the dead baby:
her body and then covered. the. coffin up. Other reports said that the amah was killed before being. ict into the coffin, Tt is nog known: Whether the coffin was burked: ar thrown into the river.
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