'The Japanese declare that. the stories of the huge number of people drowned are grossly exaggerated, but they admit that the material' damage in the flooded districts. is very considerable, 'The foreign journalists, who followed the flodds by.-plane for some 80 kilometres southwards, observed that the two new streams issuing' through the breaches converge JAnally and are beginning to form a Inow river bed which is between 400 land 2,000 metres, wide, They regard tas possible that this new bed will become the permanent course of the Yellow River, which. will meet the Hwai river at Pengpu and then distribute its waters partly into the Hiwal lake and partly into the Grand Canal and the Yangtze river—' Trans-Ocean, Captured Chinese.
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