Changchun, July 19.
Approximately 40. per cent. of the {total area under cultivation in north [Manchuria is under water, a survey Harbin and Laoshaokou is practic ally submerged, while crops in the /Shuangehengpu' area have practic ally been swept away.
Along the eastern section of the CER, the Anta, Tuichenshan, Man-kou and Tsitsihar districts are re ported to be the worst hit.
More than 5,000 persons are homeless following the flooding of houses in the Tungantung district, along the Mung River, in. the suburbs of Changchun, by the sudden rise of the river, investigations by the re-Het committee of the Changchun Special Municipal Ofice reveal.
'Property damage is placed' at '¥.006,800, with 122 houses destroyed,
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