Peiping, June 17.
More than half a million persons have been forced to flee from their homes in the flood area, where only the roofs of thousands of farmsteads are visible. The waters have washed away the Lunghai Railway. embankinert in five places, and two long sections of the line are submerged.
The leading edge of the foods, 40 miles south of Kaifeng, is flowing over 300 yards an hour.: Japanese army leaders declared today. that
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