Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-08-21 | Page 2 | Death Toll Climbs in Tientsin as Flood Holds Most of CI'

DEATH TH TOLL CLIMBS IN AS RS FLOOD HOLDS MOST OF Cl r Aug 21 AP The AP-The AP The toll of death and proper leaped today as the worst flood Hood in history histo Y mer merged ed much of the city under constantly deepening wa water WIth With the flood crest believed still to be at least a day away the overflow of the swollen Hai river and other streams put the city's electrical facilities out of commission commission commission commis commis- sion and isolated It part of ot the time from the outside world An night all rise in the flood level inundated the few remaining dry spots in the British concession when the water was three feet deep in the shallowest places Telephones were dead Small boats were the only transportation through streets Many persons braved waters often waist deep to carry out vital errands The water system still functioned functioned functioned but authorities warned that its failure was possible momen momen- Except for a slight increase in milk supplies the supplies the result of herds being driven to shallower water within the British concession concession- concession concession-Ahe the food situation was acute As flood waters within the concession concession concession con con- cession reached an average depth of ot nine feet Over ever most of the area British authorities commandeered all small boats and officers were assigned to transporting ill and exhausted victims of whatever race to hospitals' hospitals or improvised refuges Physicians were organized in a public health corps and ferried in police police manned manned b boa boats o a t s wherever their services were most needed Because of a shortage of doctors they were able to attend only those in most urgent need Many refugees actually were swimming muddy torrents in struggles struggles struggles to reach safety SHANGHAI Aug 21 UP Five UP-Five Five i hundred Chinese stor stormed ed a rice i and flour store in the Chan road today In the first food r rl ri two wo years year Sharply rising rice price Prices partly to Japanese Shanghai and partly to gu activities in the interior the riot r c CI Japan Japanese se sources reported Japanese military naval and matic officials had met c old battleship lYing II river of off consider hostile action of au at sties lUes of the International Internationals s S. S ment anent and that the Japan Japanese r regime gime at had hada had hada a similar meeting The cause was the killing men of ot the Japanese i t city police a tx wounding of one by Kinloch of the municipal p pt the International Settlement loch fired with a on sponsored Japanese Japanese ored poll polla they shot him in the back it t asserted