Abnormally High Maximum Temperature Records:
Grave Fears for Crops: Famine Measures Ordered Shanghai, July 14 Tales of drought and flood at the same time continue to pour in from the four corners of China, It would almost appear impossible to find any place at present where the weather, ud the conditions concomitant with could be termed in any way normal. AS a natural consequence the condition of the farming areas is growing dally more alarming. In those districts where drought has not burned the ground to a crisp, floods have washed away whole villages and the crops with them.
Infected in Hsuchow. The Shensi /Privincial Relief Committee has despatched telegrams for charity organiza tions in Nanking and Shanghai ap-Dealing for relief
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