The Japanese declare that the stories of the huge number of people drowned are grossly exaggerated, but they admit that the material damage in the flooded districts is very considerable.
The foreign journalists, who fol-Jowed the floods by plane for some 60 kilometres southwards, observed that the two new streams issuing through the breaches converge finally and are beginning to form a new river bed which is between 400 and 2,000 metres wide. They regard it as possible that this new bed will become the permanent course of the Yellow River, which will meet the Hwai river at Pengpu and then distribute its waters partly into the Hwai lake and partly into the Grand Canal and: the Yangtze river—Trans-Ocean,
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