

Sad experiences in previous genera- 

 tions taught the people the danger of 

 building their mud-walled houses on the 

 level plains. Consequently in this vicini- 

 ty the villages generally are perched on 

 the high spots of land, and they were 

 only partially submerged. After many 

 weeks the waters slowly subsided, and 

 here and there in the distance a few 

 trees could be seen, or a forlorn z'illage 



North China Flood Pictures 



/N Chili Province, south of Tientsin, the dikes on either 

 side of the Grand Canal gave way. Hundreds of 

 square miles of land -were submerged. We left Tientsin 

 and traveled by steam launch over flooded fields a distance 

 of thirty miles before reaching the broken end of the 



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standing partially above the 

 n'aste of w'aters. 



Greater Tientsin is divided 

 into a number of foreign set- 

 tlements or concessions — Jap- 

 anese, British. German and 

 Russian — all outside of and 

 separate from the real Chinese 

 city of Tientsin. Large por- 

 tions of these concessions 

 Zi'ere flooded, with water over 

 the first floor of the houses. 

 — Photographs by courtesy of 

 Mr. Frederick R. Sites. 



Tientsin-Pukoii' R a ilw a y . 

 Parts of the dikes remained 

 standing slightly above the 

 water lez'el. and at these 

 places the boatman utilized 

 both man-pozver in towing, 

 and wind pozver on their sails 

 to move the heavily tadened 

 cargo boats. Disease and 

 epidemics threatened. A mad 

 rush was made to get rid of 

 the flood ivaters. Tempor- 

 ary dikes Zi'ere rapidly built 

 along the boundaries of the 

 various concessions. The 

 woman carrying the baby is 

 walking on one of these dikes. 



