Peking, Sept. 7.
The Chief Secretary of the House of Representatives informs Reuter's Agency that Mr. Chang Vu-han and other Chekiang Members of Parliament have received telegranis describing the recent disastrous floods in eastern Ché- kiang as follows:—Over.30 hsiens in eastern Chekiang have been virtually overwhelmed by flood waters. Enormous loss of life and damage has ocourresl. The disaster fis unpre-candented in the history of that province.
In Chinyun, public and private buildings, as well as neighbouring villages and fields, were submerge ed. Many bridges were completely swept away. Large numbers of people and cattle were drowned.
The villages of Usientu and Haochieh and others in their immediate vicinity report the loss of thousands of people, in addition to bodies already recovered. The missing are thought to have been washed into the river and carried away to sea, The inhabitants of Hsiayang, numbering between 500 ard 600, were all drowned. Wuyihsien- was flooded twice in seven days and thes whole district is still flooded. Dead bodies are still drifting about, while starving people are huddled in groups in unflooded patches, weeping for lost relatives and awaiting death.
Chientehsien many people were drowned. Chukaihsien suffered heavily from the typhoon. Trees were uprooted and houses destroyed In this Asien there had been ral thousands of prosperous fe. "lies and only a few hundred ar..eft. The flood was equally di. trous in Fenghuahsien. The te loss of life in Chuantze, Paipi ar some other villages near by is 2,000, 100 Fewer or Water.
Uutside Chinhuahsien city the water was 100 feet deep and inside the wall about 40 feet. Houses were destroyed and crops ruined. Upwards of 140,000 people, or two-thirds of the population, have suffered severely. In Laisuihsien, the flood waters reached the top of the city wall and covered nearly the whole of the district. Dead bodies are scattered over the fields and thousands of people are homeless.
Tungyang district was flooded twice and the loss of life was heavy.' Terrible scenes occurred along a creek on the banks of which 100 families lived. When the flood rose the people went on to the roofs of their houses. There they remained while the waters rose higher and higher until the houses collapsed or the people
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