The Archive · 1935

Situation Exaggerated

Newspaper telegrams which have: created the impression that the dis-

Foam and can only rise higher and This summer the river claimed its Just rights again. "Tt must be clearly Fecognized that, it dykes are not situated at the-right place; they are worse than useless. There are other dangerous activities of the people in the Yangtze Valley. Tributaries, for example, are closed during summer time to' prevent the high Yangtze water flowing into them. High authorities have made proposals for Duilding sluices to close ff the whole Poyang Lake. The Hwayang Ho re-! in-aid of $10,000,000, which wilt cover the major part of its cast; the balance will be borne by the Provincial Gevernments concerned. The following table shows the allocation of the sub-

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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