Hopei Disaster Said Worst In Sixty Years will shortly appropriate another $1,- 000,000 for flood relief im Hopei province, following the receipt of a petition submitted by a delegation from the foed affected areas. This sum is expected to bring the total of funds sent to Hopei to $2,700,000, Last winter $200,000 were remitted thd distributed among flood sufferers, while $3,000,000 were. appropriated some time ago for -foed relief in North China, of which half has actually been spent in Hopei.
According to the delegation from Hopei, out of 127 divisions in Hopei, 94 have been affected by food. refugees number 6,000,000 to 7,000,- 000, while damages. to crops, houses] neve been confsoated, ard property i general is estimated at $2,000,000,000, The flood is described as à salami. ly, unprecedented in the past 60 years, It came in the woke of Serious drought, which lasted several months from early Spring in 1930, But on July 9, the rain came pouring. in torrents for three days, The Japanese are alleged to have opened the dykes of the Fuyang, Wei, Tzeya and Taching Rivers, and algo the Grand Canal in July, thus flooding the countryside.—Reuter, Hitler Aide Not in Japan Sensational Report Denied In Tokyo Tokyo, Apr. 30.
The German Embassy here today categorically denied & report to the effect that Capt. Fritz Wiedemann, Yor many years personal aide to Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, was in Tokyo. The Nippon Yusen Kaisha, operators of the inv. Kamakura Maru, in which Capt. Wiedemann was alleged to have travelled from San Francisco also said the report was untrue.
The "Japan Advertiser," American-owned and managed daily here, this morning said in a featured report that considerable interest had been aroused by the unostentatious presence in Tokyo of Capt. Wiedemann, now German consul-general in Sen Francisco.—Domei.
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