Word: lanfeng
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...Rumors have been set afloat to the effect that bandits were responsible for the collapse of dikes, but meantime Liu Shih. the Civil Governor of Honan [province] has openly dispatched a brigade of troops to the Lanfeng district...
...Under the pretext of safeguarding the province, he ordered his men to cut the dikes at Lanfeng and the result was a gruesome inundation extending over Western Shantung The people are now in the midst of consternation and ravages...
...dikes in a dozen places in Shantung and Honan Provinces, flipped out tentative feelers of yellow water. Like a wandering serpent, one mile-wide flood flailed ponderously across Honan Province. Where the old and new beds of the Hwang Ho fork, roily water slupped around the cities of Chengchow, Lanfeng and Kaifeng, drowning 1,000 working peasants at one gulp near the latter...