Your correspondent spent a pleasant half hour with Sir Reginald Johnston during his brief stay in this country before going to Hsinking. Sir Reaginald congratulated the "North-China Daily News" in its spelling of Manchoukuo. To spell the word without Nanking, Sept. 26, 'The flood situation" in' North! Kiangsu has assumed such serious proportions that there is now effective expedient to relieve its peril that part of the country, declared Mr. Hsu Kal, Engineer-in-Chief the Huat River Conservancy Commission, in an interview given the Central News Agency yesterday. The one and only way to save North Kiangsu from total inundation, "eccording to Mr. Hsu, is to speed: up the work of leading the flood waters in West (Shantung into the main flow of the Yellow River.
Mr. Hsu said the Yellow River in West Shantung continues to rise, with the result that the middle section of the Grand: Canal simultansously has registered a further rise. While the neighbouring districts Yaowan, slong the Grand Canal, have been completely flooded, the Liutang River also has overflowed ts banks, thus aggravating the situa tion in the eastern part of North Kiangsu—Central News.
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