Tsuchuira, Sept. 29.
'The muddy waters of the Kasumigaura Lake' in Tbaragi Prefecture, filled to overflowing by the recent Moods, tore through the banks last night and this morning and flooded many thousands of acres of rice land, causing the heaviest damage to crops nee 1900. More than 87,750 acres farm land In Nilbaru, Inashiki, Namekata, and' Kashima counties were completely submerged, ruining the farmers' hopes of an unusually good harvest.
Despite heroic efforts of the population to stem the spread of the water, the area of devastation "is rapidly extending.
'In' the meantime, in the southern part of the prefecture flooded by the Overflow of the Tone and Kagai Fivers, the water is gradually recede ing, leaving behind a thick blanket of mud—Rengo.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.