Peiping, July 30.
Many villages in Miyun, northeastern Hopel, were inundated yesterday when the Chao and "Pal Rivers simultaneously overflowed their embankments, owing to torrent tial rains on the Hopel-Jehol border. Serious havoc is reported to have been wrought in the affected" area, Communications between Miyun and Kupeikow, one of the important passes along the Great Wall, have According to another despatch, part of the wall at Nantien Men' the gateway between Peiping and Jehol, near Kupeikow, has collapsed as a result of "the heavy rainfall—Kuo Min, Efforts to Breaches Tientsin, Aug. 1.
Feverish efforts are being made by the conservancy authorities 10 close the breaches in the main dyke atong tne Yungting River at Shuangkuchen order to avert a major calamity, According to investigations, -cighi villages totalling 2,000 households have been inundated, and about 10,- (000 people left homeless and destitute," The total loss is estimated at $200,000.—Central News.
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