Show destructive yellow river thousands of men work all their lives at securing the banks of the great yellow river in china yet every now and then the tide sweeps away all opposition and the loss in human life Is greater than any war ever caused nineteen years ago the river arst its bonds day after day the torrent flowed 20 miles to the hour 30 miles wide and ten feet deep the flood has been described as that of five danules pouring from a height to two months on end for 2 years the ch nese have been embank ang this river |