Show i I Is said the Chinese have cut the j grand canal with the object of flooding flood-ing thc plain and blockading the onward 1 on-ward march of any of the powers upon Peking I this desperate strategical I act has been rcstO lc < to It Is kays the Recod Philadelphia only Jn Imitation of one of the most celebrated I d i I deeds In the annals of Chinese warfare 1 1 Away back In the clays previous to the conquering of Peking by the Manchu f 1 Invaders a great Chinese warrior Grn M LI let the Yellow river overflow its 1L1 banks ahd drowned thousands o hIs l1 own army to deluge a stubbornly II il guarded el ade that Blood in the way t of his rebellious march to the capital I |