1,800 Drowned: Relief Despat ched from Peking Peking, Aug. 20.
Eighteen hundred persons have been drowned and 32,000 rendered homeless and idle by floods from the Wen and Mi rivers in the Line chu and Anchiu districts of Shane tung, according to reports reaching the China International Famine Relief Committee, whose Shantung committee has despatched an agent 89000 to aeon! immediate The plague of grass-hoppers has totally destroyed the kaoliang and millet crops between Tawenkou and lincheng on the Tientsin-Pukow Line and affected an area 50 li on Gither side of the railway.—Reuter,
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