FLOODS IN CHINA | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 12, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 28.

FLOODS IN CHINA.

Some of our readers will already have heard of the severe suffering caused by the recent floods in northern China. China's Millions for April gives the following sad account: "The news of the floods in north China is distressing beyond measure. On account of a sudden rise of water in the Yellow River, the great stream has broken its banks, covering hundreds of acres of land, destroying the crops, washing away whole towns and villages, and leaving death in its train wherever it has gone. It is said in the one province of Shan-tong that thousands of people have perished, and that over 1,000,000 are homeless and starving. These last are moving southward in great masses, seeking for food and shelter, and for new places to locate and to earn a living. The southern provinces, however, are already overfull of people, and those resident there are not ready to welcome hundreds of additional persons, where the land but barely supplies the needs of its present occupants. The result of this condition of things has been that serious rioting has occurred in the provinces of Hunan, An-huei, and Kiang-su, while the refugees are reduced to a state of beggary and famine of the worst kind."—Christian Worker.