The immediate task confronting the Chinese authorities, it is reported to rush rescue measures for lagers. marooned through the floods. The flood refugees at Chung-mow are said to number 120,000 and those at Chengchow 20,000, The crops in the flood a as are said to have been entire destroyed, though the casualties to be small, owing to the slow gress of the floods, Two-thirds of the Yellow River waters are stated to be pouring through the dyke breaks, and one-third is said to be continuir along the river's present channel, resulting in numerous sandbanks appearing in midstream The number of refugees who are now homeless as a result of the Yellow River floods at Chengchow and Chungmow, about 20 miles south-cest of Chengchow, alone now totals 140,000, according to a report issued by the special investigator for the Chinese Government on the Yellow River flood conditions.
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