About the middle of July the Han River came down with the heaviest discharge on record—approximately asters from the flood this year were
aggerated the situation. Dyke breaks were reported which never occurred, and towns were described as flooded which in reality were dry and safe.
true that the water level came nearly to the same height as in 1831, and in several places even rose few feet higher. If the Sood defences had been in the same condition as jin 1991 the catastrophe of that year would have been repeated. But as the result of the measures sine taken by the National Food Relief Commission and other Government organs, the main dykes along the Yangtze withstood the flood very well, The telegraphic flood-warning service, instituted by the—National Economic Council, worked well. After the first telegrams from upstream, the authorities lower down the river to cut off the lakes north of tha Yangtze between Kiukiang and Anking, which have served since an-dent times as a storage reservoirs, Along the lower Hen River, the situa: fon has become much worse than along the Yangtze, and it is probable that, in the absence of radical imimprovements, floods such as that which this year devastated the lower Han Valley will become regular ocsL—CONSERVANCY COST
As announced in an official statement in June, the Government has placed the authorities responsible for conservancy administration under central control. The organ selected for this responsibility is the National Economic Council. To deal with the Present emergency, the National the highest flood ever recorded on the Han River, Water from the north side of the Tsinlingshan, flowing through the Lobo into the Yellow River, was also responsible for the disaster In Shantung and Kiangsu.
The Yellow River flood.—The fatal break this year occurred at the vil of Tungchuang within approximately 100 kilometres of the so-called elbow near Lanfeng. The reason for the break is still' not certain, as the water was several metres lower than the top of the dyke; possibly there were hidden faults in the earth work. 'The disaster was the more grave Decause the break, which only could be closed when the water was low in winter, took place at the very beginning' of the food season.
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