'A Remedy Suggested To the Editor of the "Nontu-Crxa Day News Suz—Writing as an engineer who has no experience whatever in such matters but, one who is interested in the numerous suggestions which have recently been submitted relative Shanghai's constantly recurring floods T note that no matter in which way relief may be attempted an exorbitant outlay must be anticipated, As to the cause of these floods 1 remember well an evening some ten years ago, when I listened to, what appeared to me to be. an excellent discourse on the subject by one of our oldest Yangtsze River pilots. His
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