Peiping, Sept. 9 The breaching of dykes on the Pulao. River, east of Hsuchow, has endangered the Lunghai Railway, cccording to Chinese reports reaching here to-day.
"The Pulao, normally a small river, thas been carrying a tremendous load of food water.
Pihsien, north of Hsuchow, and 200 villages around it have been subriered, 3,000 people being affected, Food refugees are clinging to the Lunghai embankment for safety. Trains on the railway are travelling. very slowly through Kiangsu, the embankments in many places have been washed away by the flood Many Made Homeless Hsuchow, Sept, Seven districts in northern Kiang-ssu, namely, Sutsien, "Sinpiehow, Tangshan, Tungshan (hsuchow), Hal-chow and Shuyang are facing extine~ lon as the waters of the Weishan Lake, the Grand Canal, and the Pulao and Lutang Rivers; swelled by the Yellow River flood waters, have been side. pouring unceasingly into the country
"As a last Yesort_ to check the invasion of the flood waters, the people in Sinpichow city are working Gesperately (0 Feinforce the bankments of the Yi River and the old bed of the Yellow River.
Latest investigations reveal that over 52,000 people in the Gth and oth Areas. of Hsuchow are homeless and Gestitute while 300,000 in Sinpichow, feast of Hsuchow, are in. urgent need of relief.
"According to information from the Lung-Hal Hallway Administration, the section of the line affected extends from Tabsuchia to the bank of the Grand Canal, covering a distance of more than 33 miles. It is feared that. 2 further rise of the waters may dis-Fupt trample altogether—Kug Min.
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