Hankow, Aug. 11.
proportions to-day as the customs indicator. recorded the food situation in the Wuhan area attained. catastrophic depth of the Yangtze River as 50.feet and seven inches.
The Taikiashan section of the great Changkung Dyke, Hankow's major protection against floods, has: collapsed. The collapse has intensified the catastrophe.
Concession policemen are now perched on stands five fei high, directing sampan traffic as the muddy, dirty water swirls about their feet.
A number of foreign houses in the Jardine estate are now completely submerged.
The authorities announced today that 500 workers have been recruited to battle the Hankow floods. The latest plan is to: build a dam entirely about the hi business district. When'the dam has been built the flood waters will. be pumped.out: emergency measure. The authorities, in their project, plan to employ 500 native water wheels in'addition to a number of electric pumps. The latest project is to cost $10,000, The danger of disease is growing greater as the stagnant waters ingreaso in depth rather than tony sign of subsiding. authorities attempt measures designed. to Mlisaster their' problems hourly and the possibility. of even deeper water looms a9. there are received reports of further floods Tesulting from the freshets in Szechuan.
The fear of an epidemic of dis case is at present causing mast Meanwhile, at Shasi the water has established a new record. by} rising t0 35.1 feet. A rive of-another foot, and it is expected: "to shy ote el"
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