Ogden Evening Standard | 1910-12-16 | Page 6 | Famine Threatened by Floods in China

FAMINE THREATENED BY j FLOODS IN CHINA j Washington. Dec If!. Famine Impends Im-pends over more than a million Chinese Chi-nese In the northern part of the prov-I prov-I lncc of Anhui. a section of tho conn-I conn-I try very' subject to destructive floods l from the Husi river and Its tributaries. tribu-taries. The American consul at Nanking, Nan-king, after a careful Investigation of the situation, has cabled the SLite department de-partment that ho finds It very bad. ' The railway now being built from I Tientsin to Pukow (opposite Nanking) I crosses the northeastern portion of . the province, which was dl?ostrously affected v ,hs fnr,Ao nf 1C(R pud will do much to imorove the com-dltlons com-dltlons of the people, who are extremely extreme-ly poor, I