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No Power On Earth Can Avert Flood Tragedy

NINE BRIGADES

IN ATTACK

ON HANKOW

Shanghai, To-day.

Vital Days For Several Provinces

Shanghai, To-day.

Reports which are coming in hourly from the Yel- low River flood areas confirm with ominous cer- tainty earlier fears that China is now threaten- ed by the most serious natural catastrophe of the present century.

Nine Japanese brigades are ad- vancing on Hankow from different directions, according to a Japanese military report issued this morning.

It is claimed that their troops The

are not being faced with stiff re- sistance. However, the main battle, it is said, will be fought on the outskirts of Hankow, where the Chinese have massed an en- ormous quantity of war material and large numbers of troops to defend the city.

It is stated that the attack on Kiukiang will probably be aban-

water from the Yangtse.

The

fate of several provinces will be decided with- in the next two days, since if the floods of the Yellow River and the Yangtse reach the great lakes of the coastal province of Kiangsu, the provinces of Honan and Anhwei will be con- verted into one huge lake by the joint floods of the two rivers.

-FRENCH-

AMBASSADOR'S DENIAL

Tokio, To-day. The French Ambassador, M. Henry, visited the Japanese_de- puty Foreign Minister, Mr. Hori- nouchi, yesterday and declared to him that all statements and ru- mours concerning alleged French support to China were entirely false and without foundation.— Trans-Ocean.

SIGNIFICANT SILENCE OF

JAP. SPOKESMEN

Shanghai, To-day. For the first time for many

doned as the river port is under In that event, which looms closer every hour, no days, the Japanese military, naval and Embassy spokesmen fewer than 30,000,000 Chinese will be threaten-had no news to report at this ed by death.

morning's press conference.

The silence regarding the flood

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objective of the Japanese ad- vancing from Anking is now stated-to-be--the occupation-of Hwangchow, 50 miles south-east The Japanese armies haveable that the Yellow River will situation seems to indicate that of Hankow. -Our Own Corres-turned from fighting their hu- dig itself a new bed, issuing into it may have become worse since

man opponents and are now en- the sea

the last information pondent.

was given some 500 kilometres gaged frantically in endeavouring further southward in the region It is stated that it has raining

out.

ECHO OF KOWLOON HOTEL INCIDENT

to stem the rushing waters

which threaten to destroy them. of the Lunghai Railway.-Trans-intermittently and that the floods Jare swollen as a result-Reuter.

Every available Japanese sol-Ocean.

dier has been ordered into action, but in spite of desperate efforts, the floods are forcing their way forward in a south-easterly and southerly direction.

NO POWER ON EARTH

An echo of the near-tragedy at the Kowloon Hotel last evening, The waters have already when a

young Russian woman reached the region which lies from Hankow fell, in mysterious some 100 kilometres south of the circumstances, from a second Lunghai Railway, and the Japan- floor window, was heard at the ese declare that no power оп Central Magistracy this morning. earth will be able to avert the worst flood disaster in the his-

Vladimir Ivanovitch Schultz, tory of China if the floods con- 21-year-old Russian, and hus-tinue to rise during the next 48 band of the woman concerned,

hours.

was sentenced to the House of Japanese army engineers. de- Detention by Mr. W. J. Lockhart clare that it seems almost inevit- Smith.

Charge against Schultz was that he entered the Colony from Hankow on Wednesday as a vagrant.

(Earlier Details of Incident on Page 4).

Washington, To-day, Congress adjourned yesterday fol- lowing passage of the $3,758,000,- 0004

"Spending and Lending Bill."- Reuter.

LOCAL SHOWERS

The Royal Observatory reports that an anticyclone of moderate in- tensity covers Manchuria, Hokkaido

and the neighbouring seas... Pres- sure is relatively low, over Tong- king:

Local forecast: E. and S. E. winds, e moderate, fair generally "with local showers.

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