Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Earlier last week the Farm Board got a nibble at some 15,000.000 bu. or more of its wheat. The Nationalist Government of China inquired through diplomatic channels if the U. S. would consider negotiations whereby Nanking would buy on long-term credit some wheat to relieve Yangtze flood victims (see p. 18). In less than three days the Farm Board responded that it would be delighted to sell to China. Then it waited for the Nationalist Government to make a bid, discuss price and credit terms, show what it would use for money...
...waters of the Yangtze, swollen by last month's rains-rose to 53.4 ft., ten feet above flood level, and continued going higher, relief agencies were mobilizing for a task that looked impossible. Of China's great central plain, an area 500 by 1,000 miles was affected by the floods, not only of the Yangtze but of the Hwai River to the north. Homeless were 30,000,000 people; 10,000,000 were utterly destitute, with hundreds dying daily. Eventually, it was estimated, the death toll would reach 2,000,000. Pestilence was abroad, was to become...
...National Flood Relief Commission under able Minister of Finance T. V. Soong, worked busily. The Nationalist Government, already harassed by rebellion in the south, disaffection in the far west and money troubles of its own, arranged to float a $15,000,000 bond issue, provided $600,000 in ready cash. From the U. S. Red Cross came $100,000. The League of Nations Public Health Service cabled an offer of epidemiologists and supplies from stations in India, Indo-China, the Dutch East Indies and Japan. Emperor Hirohito of Japan sent $27,000. The Asiatic fleet of the U. S. Navy...
Hankow was near the center of the flood area. Thousands of frightened, bedraggled peasants poured into the native city that sank lower and lower beneath the Yangtze wraters. With the streets waist-deep in the swirling, dirty flood, fire broke out. There was no way to fight it. A few brave watermen pushed their little sampans from house to house trying to rescue trapped families, but scores died. There was danger of pestilence. Foreign correspondents were less interested in the millions of homeless and thousands of dead than in two U. S. citizens, Mrs. Webb and a Mrs. Fielding...
...first move was to send Chinese planes out over the district to make an accurate report of the extent of the damage. His second was to appoint John Earl Baker, U. S. adviser to the Chinese Ministry of Railways, an associate of the National Flood Relief Commission. Railman Baker has already had much experience in flood relief work. The Standard Oil, the British-American Tobacco Co. Ltd., the Bank of China, the Millers' Association offered to cooperate, helped with preliminary plans. From the Vatican Pope Pius XI sent some...