Hsichih

“It’s only a few minutes from Nankang to Hsichih, my friends. Kindly make room for the lady,” the driver was all unctuous smiles, and spoke as though nobody was going to object after he had given the word.

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Hardest hit was the town of Hsichih, north of Taipei. The whole town was flooded as the river overflowed its banks. Police rescued 3,000 stranded residents. The Hsichih Baptist Chapel, where Southern Baptist missionaries Herbert and Alice Barrett work, was flooded with six feet of water.

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Work on the Second Northern Highway is now under way, and it is predicted that it will be completed by the end of 1992. Related projects such as the Keelung-Hsichih sectionand the Hsinchu-Pingtung sectionare stillin the design stage, and are scheduled for completion by the end of 1996.[…] Difficulties encountered during the construction of the second freeway for northern Taiwan and Taipei-llan freeway and during the extension project of Hsichih-Wuku section of the Chungshan North-South Freeway are being overcome bit by bit.

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In Taipei, the main Keelung River swelled its banks and parts of suburban Hsichih and Wutu were flooded in waist-high water.

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