Next day, a sudden storm swape the river. Two large boats were swept out of the mouth of the Han ud. sank in the middle of tke Yangtze with their thirteen pa sengers. Two other boats on their way across from Wuchang to Hankow went down and survivors say that 16 were' drowned. number of smaller boats crossing from Hankow to Hanyang were seen to sink. It ig now 17 yews since Sun Yat Sen promised Han-know that it should have a Bridge across the Yangtze as a memorial of ite prowess and sufferings when the Republic was founded. could do with the bridge as soon as convenient. The same night some amblers upset a lamp in a mat hut Beyond the railway and the raging wind carried the flames along tit 4 thousand folks were homeless,
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