Chieniens a prominent Koonin forward the: suggestion that 300,- fang" propaganda. organizer, fra Mongolia and. Man O00" "Fefugees "irom "Wuhan be
eta do recimaton ork, 3 Ekitng Selleves that only'a. eva part of flood foliot funds will" be Pecessary to transport these. suffer-The: people and. that they earn toened into settlers under overnhig step will _not Wahan "refugee em but also help to end a Menace, from without. tlement of these men Chiang. tells The Generstissimo, "abortive all ate tempts by Soviet' Russia to. peneedte into these regions to" the eelment of Ching and. thatthe die a nataral death. The proposal "not considered. altogether feasible as, in the frat place, the Mongolian and Manchurian aut ties are not likely willing to wel-Come the influx of such a tremend-sus number of fefagees into their inno and secondly, there will rear difficulty In'getting the men Srieave thelt native. province "to led to a blatant land.
'As far os the are con-Sally and ever hourly. the Isvanteves tou the waters ite "receding. One after another olidings are coming up to the Sirface' Water Sri the Concession Streets is only three feet deep and "fall of another few inches will Bot all sampans out of commission. As the floods gradually subsi conditions in the Concessions and the special administrative districts be fre Improving" Aw tnportant feet tate in the situation to-day is the
lant. inthe S.A.D. No, 1, the former German Concession.
Trains which have not been seen jin Hankow for fully a month are Jexpected to make their appearance Local railway officials de-ured to-day that the section of the railway embankment at Chankiachi (Seven Mile Creek), which was washed away by the floods, had now been repaired. A trial run will be jearried out in a day or two and if the repaired tracks should prove to adequate, train service from it Hankow to the north will be resum-led. Since the destruction of the railway {racks by the flood waters trains have been starting for Pei-[ping from Chankiachi and passengers from Hankow had to be conveyed there by steam launch, Yangtze Rises Again Sept. 9.
A now freshet in the Han River to-day caused the Yangtze River to! rise again. The ise so far has. amounted to two inches and thet fact that the steady decline of the water has been checked is retarding rehabilitation schemes.
Urgent relief is needed at Hankow and an expedition has been dose patched to that point, The National Flood Relief Commission officials here to-day were discussing the disposal of the relief gift of G: $100,000 from the Ameri-jean Red Gross. It has been proposed that with the funds, which are in the hands of the American Consul General here, there be organized a society for the relief of destin [women and children, As the floods in the Yangtze Valley continue their work devastation in 48 districts in Hupeh Province the gigantic relief cam= paign launched by the National Flood Relief Commission is 01 countering almost insurmountable difficulties, As far as the Wuhan ities are concerned the immediate danger to the lives of the populace has passed but in the outlying disftriets hundreds of thousands of farming people, whos other possessions hay cilessly washed away, fate Among the 48 inundated districts of Hupeh the districts of Sint, Yuomeng, Mieayang and Fankow, ich with a. population of about 4 160,000, are reported to be suffering th most, The floods have ruined entire villages and they have des troyed thousand of square miles of rice fields. In Sinti, which is on the bank of the upper Yangtze, }240 square miles of fertile land are under water and 10,000 houses completely demolished, The Sinti dyke, about 35 miles long. extending from Loshan. to Hwang Feng Shan, which is probably the only principal] embank-id ment in the Yangtze Valley that has not yet crumbled before the devastating flood waters, is providing refuge for over 80,000 men, women and children. Food supply has been' completely cut off and according to relief workers who have made a survey of the conditions there, the place presents a scene of desolation and agonies as starvation is about, to set in.
Headed by Mr, Yang Tse-kung, famine relief expert in Manchuria, fan expedition is proceeding to the stricken district. "They are taking. with them 500 piculs of rice and 5,000 bags of flour, but this will not: be be sufficient and much more food supplies must be rushed there if starvation is to be staved off.
'The campaign in Sinti marks the first step taken by the National' Flood. Relief Commission toward extending their activities to flood Cistricts outside the Wahan cities. After the Sinti work, the expedition will proceed to Fankow where conditions are reported to be also, In Mienyang di all farmers have lost their homes. Many. children have been separated from their" parents. Numerous babies, according to eyewitnesses, have been abandoned and are left} on roof tops or tree tops to jo of hunger and exposure. Similar conditions are believed to be existing other of the stricken villages.
Waban' conditions still demand that a many refugees as possible should be transported to other ports. The shipping firms have agreed to rui allow their steamers to carry them Jat half rates and the next 10 days should see the evacuation of at least 3,000 people. The shipping companies, both foreign and Chinese, have agreed after several days of negotiations to transport the re-fogoes at $3 per head. They will treated as ordinary passengers and will be given food on board, The Relief Commission agree to pay.60 per head for food for the voyage from Hankow to Shanghai or at the rate. of $0.10 per meal for shorter voyages.
The agreement also stipulates that no steamer will be called upon to carry more than 100 passengers on any one trip and that the Com-ion must undertake to ensure that all passengers are healthy and free from contagious or other disease Sept. 10.
A terrific rain' storm which struck the devastated Wuhan area yester day continued to rage to-day, adding the troubles of the destitute re-fagees and to the difficulties of the overworked relief workers.
'With the advent of the rain and jew freshets in the Han river, water level of the Yangtze River off Hankow continues to rise, making it necessary to postpone, pumping operations which had been' planned for the business ates.
The danger of a food crisis has not, been averted, it was indicated to-day. With the problems creasing in this area because of the vagaries of the weather and because the sudden halt in the decline of the flood waters officials of the National Flood Relief Commission fave planning to purchase 10,000 rice from Kinngsi province.
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