Floods

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 19, 1916

THIS present year has witnessed many floods in different portions of the world, and they still continue. From the public press of last month we learn that the waters of the Nile reached such a high level that it was necessary for the government to enforce the decree of 1887, which empowers the government to call on any able-bodied man to assist in work for the protection of threatened regions, under penalty of imprisonment or fine. Within a day or two of this word from Egypt, news comes of a flood in China, inundating an area of seven thousand square miles, and rendering a million persons homeless. The lamentable thing in this case is that the flood has occurred in the very region in which the American Red Cross Society had already spent $600,000 for flood protection, and where a $30,000,000 loan was being used in reclamation work which was postponed by the war. Thus even the poor Chinese suffer because the European war made the flood-protection plans impossible to carry out.