Startling figures with reference to the Chinese floods of the past year were given on dan, 13 by Sir John Hope Simpson, Ditector-General of the National Blood Relief Commission, in an address given at the tiffin of the Pan-Pacific As in Ladow's "Tavern, Ningpo Road, when Dr. Wang presided over large gathering, 3 After describing the map, speaker compared the Yangtze flood 1931 to the Mississippi flood of 1027 and mentioned that—the anaximum discharge of the Yangtze flood at Hankow was 2,440 000 cubic meters second whilst that of the Mississippi in 1927 was 2,053,000 cubic meters a second.
less Mississippt, flood covered not han 20,000 square miles but inly not Square miles, whilst the toral ared Of the Chinese flood of 1931 was 12,000 square miles, of which 34,000, were seriously flooded.
In the water-sheds of the tribe: taries of the Yangtze above Han-ow, the speaker said, the amount of water which fell during the worst day of the August storm was 1.000, '000 cubic meters every second of the clay, the total for the day being 85,- 000,000,000 cubic meters of 32,048,- (000,000 tons, 'The flood was not con fined to the Yangtze Valley because there were also very serious floods in the Huai River valley when the rain during the August storm was probably even heavier. It varied rom 43 inches in one day' at Pengpu to 84 inches, There were also floods fon the Yellow River.
Loss of human life was considerable, Sir John went on to say, but ess than might have been expected, as the Water generally rose lov Figures of millions of lives lost in Yeports were gross; indeed, they were fantastic exaggerations. places "where there were some reaches, of important dykes, the Joss of life was serious, a3, for me stance, at Kaoyu, where the flood: water tore through the city, destroy ing the houses, - The material loss was likewise enormous. 'The Nan-King University' survey showed that the' total loss. was, $2,897,000,000. All the crops were lost, in addition to "animals worth $165,000,000; clothing and bediling, $67,500,000; buildings. °$470,000.000; furnitar $64,000,000; and implements. $118, 00,000, Tu adulation, supplies of ced for sowing disappeared, and the Nanking University. reported that, for spring sowing alone, 337, 000 tons of seed were needed. "One and a half million tons of fodder were required to keep animale al and some 4,000,000 tons of fuel were wanted for the people, she also reded! $50,000,000 worth' of clothing,
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