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Show I MANY LIVES DESTROYED BY FLOODS IN CHINA VICTORIA, B. C, Oct. 13. Local Chinese Chi-nese have- received cablegrams telling of heavy loss of life and great desolation in Helping. China, us a result of the breaking of the dykes and overllow of the West river. Inundating tlic district for hundreds of miles. The number of killed is not given, but tho message states that the loss has been immense and starvation Is feared, and It appeals to the ChlncKC nbroud to send aid. Subscriptions from local Chinese were mndo within a fhort time after the receipt of tho cablegrams, which totaled $7000, the first amount being be-ing cabled to Chinese ofllclals at Canton-. Canton-. -for distribution among tho snffcrcrn. Tho dlsnster came at tho time of hurvest, whjn the crops aro ready to be taken from tho fields. |