Shanghai, June 16, Nationality barriers were laid aside in the Mooded plains of northern Honan yesterday as mankind wrote another chapter in its age-long battle against nature.
Chinese aided Japanese soldiers in bringing succour to the 300,000 farmers driven from their homes by the waters of the Yellow River pouring into the lowlands near Chungmow, halfway between Kaifeng and Cheng: chow, Domei dispatches reaching here said, Westerners organized themselves into volunteer workers to deal with the sudden influx of frightened, des-dilute refugees into the already over~ crowded capital of Honan, Rescue squads built 150 rafts to sereh for survivors, With rain pelting down pitilessly the makeshift rafts, Japanese soldiers went about rescueing Chinese peasants marooned on heights or Trees, Under fire from Chinese on the opposite bank, Japanese engineer detachments yesterday reached the breaks in the embankments and immediately began the dim cult task of Alling the breaches, Honan Plain Threatened The water is cascading down a three foot drop, spreading over a width of six kilometres across the Mat, sandy plain of northern Honan, Thousands of Chinese farmers than the Japanese could ever be jeopardized "'by this act of their own countrymen," he stated, The spokesman bitterly criticize the breaking of the embankment, pointing out that "more civilian lives than the Japanese could over jeopardize by bombing" had been placed in immediate danger,
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