Show FLOODS AND FAMINE CITIES AND TOWNS IN CHINA UNDER WATER MANY HOMES BEING SUBMERGED because of destruction of fields and scarcity of rice the cost of living has risen to highest point ever attained washington the tha enormity and horror of tho the famine situation confronting tron ting china caused iby by the overflow of the yang tsen river was on wednesday officially reported to the state department by american consul general wilder at shanghai and the question of tendering red cross assistance Is under consideration As the tha amount at the disposal of the american red cross society foe to this purpose is infinitesimal when compared with the proportions of 0 the necessity it is possible that an appeal for additional funds may bo be issued su ed the entire territory between hart han kow and shanghai a distance of about miles has been overflowed mr wilder reports cities and towns are u under water inac of the aa scarcity ot of rice and the destruction ot of the fields the cost of living has risen to the highest point ever attained C D jameson an american engineer Is now in china at the expense of the american red cross stud studying yin means ly by which that country may scientifically control the ravaging waters of the streams |