12,000 Cases Prove Fatal In Past Ten Weeks Simla, June 16 The cholera epidemic in India is assuming serious proportions A total of 25,000 cases have best reported in the United Provinces within the past ten weeks, of which 12,000 were fatal.
Other parts of the country have been affected to a lesser extent, and cases have been reported from Afghafistan.
The early monsoon is expected to check the spread of the epidemic.—Reuter.
Chungmow, halfway between Kei-feng and Chengchow, Yushih and Fukow were entirely surrounded by water, varying in depth from two to eight feet, The rise of the water at various points came to a stop on Wednesday, a slight fall being noted at night as Japanese engineers, assisted by thou-sends of anxious Chinese farmers, succeded in placing makeshift barriers across the path of the flood.
Japanese engineer officers, directing the flood fighting operations, were confident that the water could be stopped if the Yellow River did not show a rise in the next 48 hours.
Rain in the immediate vicinity of the breached embankments or further upriver, however, would make human efforts to stem the flood hopeless, leaving the way for a major catastrophe, they said.
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