Lasting Friendship Formed in Battling Floods——Notes on Rewi Alley's Five Visits to Honghu

While it was intensively hot in mid-July, oneflood crest after another came from the up-per reaches of the Yangtze River: Jiangxi is in anemergency, then Hunan, Hubei. News reports aboutthe flood and the struggle to protect the dyke wagedby the people along the river arrested the attentionof the whole nation. One saw on the TV screen the