While this great area is suffering from lack of water, Tsingkou, a city east of Huschow, Kiangsu, near the coast, was flooded late on Monday night when the dykes around the town were destroyed by a tidal wave. "The waves approached the west gate of the city and washed away @ large number of houses.
Twenty-two persons are known to ye been washed off near the city fate.
The flood waters have not yet subsided and heavy rain is stil falling in that region, according to Chinese reports.
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