"China's Sorrow" Takes Three Miles Swerve in Course Tsinan, Sept. 30.
Owing to the accumulation of silt long the course of the Yellow River at Litsun, near its mouth in northeastern Shantung, the river has suddenly changed its direction, flow-Ing some three miles southeast of its orignal course towards the sea. As the old course is blocked up with dirt and mud and the. new one is too shallow to permit of the smooth flow the waters to the sea, the river is rising rapidly at Lokow, north Mr. Hua Kuan-shih, resident representative of the Yellow River Conservancy Board, has despatched telegram to the Board at Kaifeng, provincial capital of Honan, urging! that dredging operations be immediately started in order to avoid aggravation of the situation—Kuo
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