remains for the community, a Jo whole to do alli thay it possibly ican to assist the organisations fubich are collecting funds in cooperation with and in complement the otlical effort.
The Yangchow Floods The floods at Hankow have been graphically described in the telegrams from that stricken area, but the horrors of China's latest sorrow fare Drought much nearer home by the reports of the calamity which has befallen the Grand Canal dis trict north of Yangchow, at the Jjunetion of the Canal and the Yangtze, "In the floods which followed the breaking of 16 sections the dykes, the Chinese local officials estimate at least 200,000) people lest their lives. While this jounds appalling itis nite possible because this. district one of the most populated in China. Shanghai is greatly affect. ed by the disaster for it is from district, which is locally known as the Kompo (Kiang-pei," or north river district), that tens of thou sands of Chinese are recruited for the, mills and factories of Shang: jand, thousands of Kompo amen pull rieshas in the Settlement. This intimate link with the scene of such]
disaster only increases the feel of distress. Incidentally, there is a tragic fable, born of centuries of]
freulating. It is related fret Ming emperor, who founded his capital. at Nanking, placed all his friends in high offices '2nd thereby aroused the indignation of the gods. The consequences was} that" the gods placed a terrible curse on the Kompo district, vowing that it should be forever an area Of famine and drought. The curse has been broken with grim reality,
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