Hankow, Sept, 11.
The level of the Yangtze at Chungking has risen by 19% ft. In the past two days, but this, according to a iver Ins he added, certainly cause. for alarm; Hankow might be_ai a few inches Shanghai, Sept. 12.
The Governing Board of the Chiese-Foreign Famine Relief Committee met last night, under the chairman ship of Mr. 'Sung Han-chang, consider ways and means to render immediate help to the sufferers from flood and famine. The Rev. Father Jacquinot gave a full report of his jontl investigations. around' Pel helen and on the Kiangsu-Shantung border, "He said 500 sq kllomet fare under water, and a large part of the crops and' very many. homes have been washed away by the flood: Those with houses sti standing a every wind or wave undermines the walls of their homes. The people are doing excellent work trying to maintain the existing On a conservative estimate, Father Jacquinot said that 160,000" people fare now In neod of help. Some of these may be cared for temporarily by Tocal resources, but a great many will only be Kept alive if funds are available to provide food and. shelter. The CRER.—sub-committee (composed of Chinese and. forelgnat Poihsien had at an cani '$5,200 and a further $5,000 was ut three days ago, together with medicine and clothing. It will be necessary, at a later stage, to make further' grant, The general allocations made by the Board were:—to Shantung $50 000; to Yangtze, $30,000; to" North Kiangsu, $20,000; to Fukien and Hsuchow's D:
Hsuchow, Sept. 13.
A {errifle gale which' swept over North Kiangsu yesterday has greatly intensified the already threatening. flood situation in this part of the province. Whipped by strong winds and rain, the Weishan Lake, the 1d several small rivers risen simultaneously, submerge ing some 4,000 houses. Several gaps more than 10 ft. wide have occurred dykes at Chenchang and Tien-ting a more serious before has experienced—Central News. indies Add to Fears Heuchow, Sept. 15.
In addition to the uncontrotiable flood waters from the Yellow River, 'a bandit scare is adding terror to the hundreds of thousands. of people in northern Kiangsu whose plight is] already aggravated by the advent of the cold weather following the terrifle hurricane which swept: the dis~ trict during the last few da Bandit hordes, driven out of their airs along the Welshan Lake and taking advantage of the situation, now run rampant in these parts." The situation fs rendered the more serious because all available police forces in northern Kiangsu, except the barest skeleton, have been recruited to work in dyke repairing and are not easily recalled at short notice—Central News. rence of several wide dyke gaps on the. eastern embankments of the Grand Canal which ripped open an gullet for flood waters to rush into the ake Paotheh and Wayao, two stations slong' the Lunghat Railway north of Loma Lake, have now been fooded. Chiulungmiao and Yaowan, two dis {rlets north -of Hauchow, have. also been affected Despite a slight receding in the water level of the Pulao River and the Weishan Lake, Pihsien is quoted In. messages received as. sti being surrounded by ood waters. 'Tele Phonic communications between Hsu. thow and" Piksion have' Deen "oise rupted since: yesterday.
Anxious to avert a ood catastrophe at Hauchow, the Riangsu provincial government''has remited. © sum §20000"and a large quantity of flood Prevention materials to the Hsuchow Aisriet government.
Dyke "repairing and construction work in "Heuchow is now inthe hands of government troops under the personal "supervision of General Huang Chieh, commander of the 2nd Division and Lieut-Genera! Fan Han hich, Chief of Statt—~Central News Soldiers of the 2nd Division are sisting in the repair of the breach:
dykes "at "Chetackow, Ching. shan tao, and Pipashan, Ligus-Gem:
commander, "has "been personaly a "Hlung Chih, the "Divisional supervising the wore during' the Fast low days three' districts of Fonghsien, "Yuta, The huge dam jointly built by the
and Shankslen, '(he latter. two dist {lets are on the Shantung bordes) to protest them against the further Invasion of the Yellow River flood waters is nearing. completion after days and nights of hard labour.
According to a message from Sutsion, tu north-eastern Kanga, the Laing River is swollen with" the inrush of part of the Yellow River flood " waters through " the Grand Canal; "he river level 1s only one foot below the embankments at is Upper reaches—iuo afin,
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