If the Mississippi River should leap in flood from its channel at Memphis and lash cross-country to a new sea mouth somewhere in Florida, the chaos and horror would be as indescribable as they were in China last week when the mighty Hwangho River finally made good its threat (TIME, July 22) to quit the channel in which it had flowed since 1854.
With all lines of communication swamped, eight vast administrative districts of Shantung Province went under and 30,000,000 Chinese faced homelessness and famine.
Farther south the Yangtze River subsided somewhat, had...
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