Dairen, July 12. The head offices of the South Man-
Jcnuria "Railway to-day announced {that Harbin is panic-stricken fearing greater disaster than in 1982. The Sungari river is within a metre of lovertiowing and. submerging Harbin.
'The embankments are weakening andthe hurried repairs will be chaps insuficlent, "Three hundred thousand yuan have been appro> priated by' the city for urgent. Drofective measures.
Part of the Manchoukuo capita IChangenun, "is under water. One hundred houses have. collapsed and }200 have been submerged while there fare more than 1,000 refugees.
The Changehun-Harbin Railway service has been interrupted at a point of $0 miles south of Harbin by ihe menacing Lalin River Passengers were obliged to cross the weakened bridge on foot to await the trains at both ends.
Bandits are swarming over flooded areas tearing down communi. Jcations and pursuing the helpless vic-ims wno are seeking refuge in the Daren, July 13, More bridges were washed a to-day and bandit depredations con-Hinued to add to the sorry plight of north Manchuria.
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