Tientsin, Aug. 25.
The food situation here was expect ed to pass a crisis today as reports from the interior indicated a subsidence of streams feeding the swollen Poi and Chiangtzu Rivers.
"Telephone service was resumed in the Japanese Concession today, while clecirie light service was expected to be restored in a few days, Japanese authorities have provided accommodation for $0,000 refugees.
Bight thousand bales of rice and other foodstuffs were being dis tributed to flood sufferers by Japanese army authorities in ce-operation with the Japanese Residents' Corporation.
All privately owned boats in the Japanese Concession were common deered and assembled at Yaimato Park to be used in relict work, fet, following The British Municipal Council is reported to have decided to impose restrictions on food supplies, The Asia Development Board, the mame of its President, Baron Kilichiro Hiranuma, Prime Minister of Japan, announced. the donation of %.300,0 for "hood "reli work "Tentsn, Aug, 2 Several cates of ehelora lini, curred in Tentsn. Foreiquges have eased wading. trough the. was then possible, owing to bad rash and siber skin aliments which "develop fror contact with the filthy water "Traine from Tontsin to" the west nave con tntrrupied bythe dod, Which ly some parts have washed the tracks-—Reuter,
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