Show FEARFUL FLOODS IN CHINA many lives lost as result of break ing of dykes victoria B C local chinese have received cabIe cablegrams grams telling of heavy loss of life and great desolation in helping china as a result of 0 the breaking of the dykes and overflow of the west river inundating the dis brict for hundreds of miles the num her ber of killed hilled is not given but the message states that the loss has leen veen immense and starvation Is feared and it appeals to the chinese abroad to send aid subscriptions irom from local chinese were made within a i short time after the receipt of the cablegrams which totaled 7 the first amount be ng cabled to chinese officials at canton for distribution among the sufferers the disaster came at the time of harvest when the C crops are ready to be taken f from rom tha the elds |