CHINA: Water Woe

Wicked Pennsylvania flood waters drowned a dozen persons last week. In New York harassed Governor Herbert H. Lehman dashed about inspecting the $25,000,000 wreckage left by an upstate flood that had taken 42 lives. And in China the colossal Yangtze and Hwangho Rivers cut loose with a deluge of Biblical fury, drowned as many as 1,000 Chinese in a single hour, kept right on drowning them by thousands and left wasp-waisted little Chinese Dictator Chiang Kai-shek once more acutely conscious that, when the heavens are angry, praying, trembling man is no...

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