Aug. 27.
Fresh foods are reported from Hunan." Changsha telegrams to the Chin Pao state that the embankments along the Yangtze tine region of—Changteh, iven way, with the result that most of rice crop in the Taoyuan istrict has been ruined.
Shensi is also n to be suffering from floods. About sixty.
districts, including Kaoyi and Hi yin, are' under water as a result of the" Yellow River overflowing. its banks. people have been drowned and large numbers of cattle have been swept away. Conditions. fare said to be terrible-—Reuter "Buy Food from Manchuria'
Nanking, Aug. 30.
The Ministry of Industries has sent an official petition to the ional Flocd Relief. Commission suggesting the purchase of beans and other foodstuts from the Thi Eastern Provinces (Manchuti stead of buying foodstuffs from abroad.' This, the petition. points out, will: resuit in the saving of transportation expenses,
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