During the eight months in which the 5,000 miles of dykes were built, many incidents happened.
Baker related how one young mai iwas tempted by the huge amount of money in his hards and absconded. When found, he committed =u by jumping into the river. The gang of eleven surveyors was put in a. small junk after their capture by the Reds. The junk capsized strong wind, and'onky one of eleven surveyors survived. Fift seven engineers worked under captivity by Communists, and eleven Jcember, 1983, will enjoy a reduction $190.00 which makes the price per See $625 and. 60 four-folded cloth Wrappers $40, totalling $565. All packing, postage and insurance will Be. charged. extra, Messr®. Kelly & Walsh, Ltd, are executing the printing off the work. others were carried away by them Five of the captives were lost, Mr. 1H. S. Ferguson being one of them.
At one period, he said, the men working on the dykes were but a harrow margin ahead of the rising water, It was not until May 15 that they were definitely ahead of the waler., 'The loss in the transportation of the huge amount of wheat] and flour through leakage etc., hand-Ted by him, was but Uva per cent. 'The amount of earth work done along the Yangtze, its tributaries, the Grand Canal,' and the Huai River, all joined together would built an embankment six fect high and Six feet wide round the world at the equator.
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