1925-12-22 — Page 3

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

Pictures Showing One of China's Sorrows.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1925.

King at Peace Settlement.

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Hundreds were drowned

and thousands mudo konioless when the Yollow Rivor was boted, and overflowel its banks, These photos were taken a few weks ago.

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At the top is shown a sec tion of the bank that was cut through by the raging torrent. In the middle are seen four destituto Chinese standing guard by the bodies of their drowned children, and at the right are two men on impro- vised rufts, living on beans which they have to dive below the surface to, get.

The bottom picture shows a hastily constructed shelter on piles in the flooded district, with survivors on it.

Recent Agreement on Italian

King Boris of Bulgaria leaving the House of Parliament in Sefis at the recent opzuing of Puritanient witon the pance settlement between Grence and Bulgaria was effected.

A Monocled Jumper.

Just fancy Trying to leap over the bar unless one has the proper equipment to see the baily thing. J. D. S. Pondle- bury won the high jump at Cambridge University with a leup of 6 feet 1 inch. And he wore a monocle as he did it.

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Members of the American and Italian debt commission agreed upon a settlement of the war debt of Italy to the United States. This shows members of both commissions signing the agreement; left to right they are: Secratary Kellogg, Count Volpi, head of the Italian commision, Secretary of the Treasury Mellan, and Congrossman Burton.

Heavy Rain Leads to Flooding.

Eight and a half inches of rainfall in loss than a week causad a disastrous flood tha destroyed 81,000,000 worth of crops, tied up traffic and demoralized oil wells in Louisiana, This photograph shows how the tracks of the Vicksburg, Shroveport and Paciflo" railroad" wore flooded near Gibbsland, La., stopping all traffic for several days.

Final arrangements for settling Italy's war debt were made at Washington at the conference between American. officia a and the Italian commission headed by Count Guiseppo Volpi di Misurata. This shows the signing of the articles, with Count Volpi at the loft and Secretary Mollon at the right.

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