FOR the third time in three consecutive years the might Yellow River floods have come rushing down the small Sha River to join the Hwai River at Chengyangkwan. Ever since the breaking of the Yellow River dykes two years ago, north Anhwei has suffered tremendous losses every simmer. Last year the flood waters reached here on June 24, and within eighteen hours the river rose as many feet. This year, owing to the cooler weather in general, the floods were later in arriving, and reached their height on July 14, The first year of the floods no provision was made, and so the water spread in all directions over the vast north Anhwei plain bringing death and destruction to crops and property. Last year the local officials in an attempt to control the floods built huge dykes on both sides of the Sha River for hundreds of li, These were fairly well built, and no doubt would have withstood the terrific pressure of the floods had it not of July.
The torrential rains, and the high winds played havoc with the dykes, with the result that half the entire hsien was inundated. "Hundreds were drowned the night the dyke broke, tens of thousands were rendered homeless, and obliged to move else~ where {0 seek a living. Some, willing to remove too far from home, were content with mat-sheds perched precariously on the unbroken stretches of the dykes.
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