The Yellow River is making Kaifeng very much perturbed and the authorities are not yet decided sto what to do or are not really Interested. On December 21 the general course of the river changed Suddenly towards the southern dykes at Hsingche about thirty li north of Chengchow and swept away a number of dams. During recent days the river continued to rise and £8, 20", breaches "have not yet drowned.
filled, Many. people were
The authorities plan to remove the victims of the Yellow River floods who are from Huansien in northern Honan and distribute them districts along the Pinghan line from. Changte in the north Yencheng in central Honan. The people are to be spread over this area, on the general plan of thirty sixty farmers supporting one refugee. This means that, accord ing to the density of the population, Will be 600-1,000 refugees in third-class. districts, 100-1,500 in second-cla districts' and from 1,500 to 2,000 in the first-class districts, According to recent statistics issued by" the local Provincial Famine Relief Association, " the number of poor people in this city fs more than 8,200 and that of famine victims coming in here from various parts of the province, over 10,000.
Fust recently quite 'a number of its reputation for assassinations, western, Honan is ving up to
cates have Been reported from that eeion. In Mienchih-hsien's capital, There were ten murders within og many days since the beginning of the month. "Most of the. victims weve ether policemen "or retired
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