河南省人民政府于八月十三口发出通报,表扬参加黄河、沙河、卫河防汛抢险的工人、农民、部队指战员和全体工作向志。全文如下:八月以来,我省中部和北部连续大雨,黄河、沙河、卫河先后出现三、四次较大洪峯,黄河水位超过了一九四九年,为解放以来最高的一次洪水;卫河在小李庄超过保证水位零点四三公寸;沙河上出现了漏水、坍岸、裂缝等险象七十七处。当时情况是十分严重的,但由于你们发挥了高度的工作积极性,动员了 Henan Provincial People’s Government issued a circular on August 13th commending the workers, peasants, military commanders and soldiers, and all the volunteers who participated in the flood control and rescue work on the Yellow River, Shahe River and Wei River. The full text is as follows: Since August, there have been heavy rains in the central and northern part of our province. The Yellow River, Shahe River and Wei River have seen three or four major flood peaks successively. The Yellow River water level surpassed that of 1949, the highest flood since liberation. Wei River in Li Zhuang exceeded the guaranteed level of 0.43 inch; Shahe appeared leaking, collapse bank, cracks and other risks like seventy-seven. At that time, the situation was very serious, but because you have played a high degree of enthusiasm for work and mobilized