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Show Destructive Yellow River. Thousands of men work all their lives at securing the banks of the great Yellow river in China. Yet overy now and then tho tide sweeps away all opposition and the loss in human life is greater than any war ever caused. Nlnetcon years ago the river burst Its bonds. Day after day the torrent flowed, 20 miles to the hour, '30 mllos wide and ten feet deep. The flood has been described as that of flvo Danubcs pouring from a height for two months on end. For 2,000 years the Chlneso havo been embanking embank-ing this river. |