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Show PESTILENCE FOLLOWS FLOODS IN CHINA TEKIX, Sept. a Only meager reports re-ports bava reached the capital from the walled towns about tha Vang Tse valley, where the floods have hem mail w in the miaaionariea and other foreigner. foreign-er. The report received by tha American Ameri-can mission at Wubu. estimating tbat 100,000 persona have heen urowned, haa aot vet been verified but every account eonrirme the great extent of the diaas- ' ter. Travelers arriving by steamboat at Hankow from the upper reaches of the river report that many eolflna, of a huge t'hincae tvpe, were encountered floating in the Vang-Tse which indi-catea indi-catea that tbe waters are robbing the graves .of former year. From ( hang Teh. in the province of Hunan, comes word that the receding waters are being followed by pestilence. pesti-lence. Tbe International Belief society, whleh will convene at Shanghai September Sep-tember 15. will consider the question of placing its relief societies. |