In such an event, these officers believed, the Yellow River would seck new course, probably south of its ancient bed which had an outlet at} Haichow.
Lake Hungtze, lying halfway bo-tween the Tientsin-Pukow railway and the sea was believed to be likely, fo become part of the Yellow River should a major flood occur.
The possibility that the Yangtze and the Yellow River would be joined by a vast Luke was also fore-Seen by engineers who pointed out that, once loosened, the flood waters would flow into the Kialu River, which in turn would empty into the Hwai River to seck.an outlet In the Hungtze and Kaoyu lakes in northern Kinngsu, Ju this eventuality, the major portions of Honan, \Anhwel and. Honan provinces would be under 'The Yangtze and jhe Yellow Rivers' were connected by a body of inland water in the thirteenth, fourteenth, and nineteenth centuries,
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