OMelal reports received bythe Changehun, Aug. 1.
Department of Civil Aftais" from food-stricken. districts in Tengen, Kirin, Hellunghiang and Jebot Prov Ince' paint a picture of death sutfering and. desolation.
No" fewer. than. 142, persons are known to be dead, a total of 15,08 Rouses have. been' flooded, and "the destruction to crops ts estimated $1,000,661, while loss of livestock amounts to $156,800.
The reports indicate that the situation is serious in many of the stieken areas and that thousands of people are in acute distress.—Rengo.
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