This year greater care has been exercised in the construction of the the dykes. They are set back farther; from the river, built higher, made wider, and more sloping on the inner side, "The weak spots, responsible for much of last year's "disaster, have een specially reinforced with piles. In other places, a second dyke has: been constructed in case the inner one ives way. The weakness, however, in these dykes les in the fact that most of them have been only recently, built, This means that they haven't had time to settle and harden. To make them really secure they should have been built lost winter when the wa: ters receded, This would have been an excellent time for then the farmers fare idle. As it was, they were left Until this spring just 'a few weeks before the wheat harvest when everybody was too busy to think about anything but getting in his wheat.
Up 10 the present the dykes have held, s0 that only the area inside the dykes has been inundated. This is a small area compared with last year. The floods have now been here two Weeks, and have in all probability reached their height, which is still
mark. two feet under last year's high water been for the typhoon at the end Serious Flood in E. Kwangtung Canton, Aug. 13.
A wide area.in the Tungkoon district, in eastern' Kwangtung province, fg flooded as a result of the East River overflowing, according to a re-ort of the Municipal authorities here.
Sheklung, important town 40 miles from Canton along the Canton-Kowloon Railway, is one of many places under ware Besides incalculable damage to rice-fields, the flood has caused the col-
Thousands Drowned in Central China Tokyo, Aug. 18.
Thousands of villagers in central China have' been drowned, according to a Japanese news agency despatch from Kaifeng. Breaches have occurred at several places on Yellow River dykes.
The whole area between the Lunghai Railway and the old Yellow, River is flooded, Several hundred feet of embankment collapsed opposite Chung: mow and water is pouring through eight places near Wulipu, according to the message—Reuter. lupso of numerous houses, rendering, thousands of people homeless. Reuter.
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