European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 16, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday july 16, 1991 the stars and stripes b. Page 9river crests without incident Nanjing China apr China a longest River the Chang a formerly called the Yangtze a crested monday near several Large Industrial cities without causing significant new flood damage. But officials said other Rivers and lakes remain dangerously High. A concern was focused on Tahu Lake in a heavily populated Region that includes the tourist City of Suzhou famed for its canals and gardens. I angst provincial Secretary general Duan Xueshen told a news conference that the Tahu is holding 2l/z times its usual Quantity of water. A if there Are no new heavy Rains the danger will Lessen but we can to be careless a Duan said. He said it could take three weeks for the water to drop below the danger Mark. I Duan said emergency workers were watching dikes around the Lake for any sign of weakness As a result of the weeks of heavy Rains that have devastated much of i angst and other Eastern provinces. Rains and floods have killed More than 1,000 people in Eastern China and More than 1,700 nationwide As much of China endures an unusually heavy Rainy season. The most recent storms have been in Hubei and Hunan provinces in Central China Guichou province in the South and the a axing ailing Forest in northeastern China the official newspaper China daily reported. Authorities were unable to provide a comprehensive death toll but partial figures published in the China daily brought the figure to at least 1,697. Chinese casualty counts Are rarely Complete due in part to poor communication with disaster stricken areas. A Duan said Rains also continued sunday and monday in Northern i angst provinces a Xian River area one of the hardest hit. Farther South in heavily flooded Rural areas North and West of Nanjing no new rain fell but workers reinforced earthen dikes against the pressure of the rain swollen Chu River a Chang tributary. Tens of thousands of peasants were camping on the dikes in makeshift tents surviving on government distributed biscuits and soda water. Cities along the Chang had raised barricades in recent Days As a Crest moved downstream fed by rain Runoff. The Crest passed Zhenjiang Hangzhou and other Industrial cities monday without causing damage officials said. A the situation is much better. I done to want to use the word Safe a said Chen Yin Chen an Engineer in the Nanjing water conservancy Bureau.  said 28 to 44 inches of rain fell on various parts of i angst Between May 21 and wednesday. That is equal to the amount that usually Falls during an entire year he said. The i angst flooding also affected some 20,000 factories that were partially or completely shut Down. Duan put direct losses at $2 billion and said it would take two to three years to recover. Turkish owned Banks damaged by firebombs in Hannover Bremen Hannover Germany apr firebombs were tossed at turkish owned Banks in two cities monday causing damage but no injuries. Police said they found evidence that could link one attack to a turkish terrorist group. In Hannover an unidentified Man broke the display window of the Zirat Barkasi . Bank and tossed in a firebomb about 1 . Sunday police said. Eight apartments Over the Bank were evacuated As a precaution but firefighters were Able to extinguish the Blaze quickly. Police estimated damage to the Bank at $55,000. In the Northern port City of Bremen a lighted bottle filled with gasoline was thrown at the front door of Zemlak Bank but passing police noticed the fire and were Able to put it out with a fire extinguisher. Police said later monday that they had found a piece of cloth at the Bremen Bank bearing the name of the leftist group Devrim i sol and the inscription a at regular intervals accountability for the murdered will be  the monday attacks followed a similar firebombing at a turkish airline office in Frankfurt on sunday. The group implicated in the Bremen attack is More commonly known As Dev sol which Means revolutionary left. It is one of the fiercest Urban guerrilla organizations in Turkey and has claimed responsibility for scores of political murders since the 1970s. It is also Allied with the separatist kurdish labor party the pkg which is fighting a guerrilla War in Southeastern Turkey. Meanwhile about 70 kurdish sympathizers began a fast in the Central Market Square of Bremen to protest what they called the a massacre of  three kurd were killed in the Southeastern turkish City of Diyarbakir on wednesday when police opened fire on a crowd attending the funeral of a kurdish activist Vedat a dins. On saturday Stone throwing demonstrators protested outside at the turkish consulates in Hamburg and Stuttgart to condemn the killings in Turkey where tension Between police and the country a kurdish minority has been running High. It was not Clear exactly what prompted the string of attacks on turkish interests in Germany but police refused to Rule out political motives. Turkish police cracked Down on Dev sol in Istanbul on Friday killing 10 suspected members. Police said Large caches of arms and explosives were seized together with police and military uniforms. In Paris on Friday Pasa Guven an exiled former Leader of Dev sol was found shot in the head. About 1.7 million turks were living in Germany As of the end of 1990, according to the Interior ministry but no records Are kept on How Many of them Are kurdish. However a spokesman for the kurdish initiative for human rights office in Bre Merl said at least 300,000 turkish kurd Are in Germany. Rampage at kenyan school leaves at least 19 girls dead Nairobi Kenya up classes were cancelled monday at a school whose male students went on a weekend rampage that killed at least 19 girls. All students were urged to stay Home until an inquiry is completed. More than 300 schoolboys were on the Lam following the trouble at the Saint i Soto school in Meru District 130 Miles North of Nairobi. They fled into the african Bush surrounding the school after trampling the girls. The nation newspaper said the unrest grew out of a strike waged against the headmaster by the schools 306 male students. The schoolboys were retaliating for being prevented from participating in an athletic event because they failed to pay $500 in student activity fees. A the boys started plotting the strike on Friday after they were thrown out of a sports meet at the Kaaba High school a student Mary Kabirtha told the newspaper. The schoolboys waged the strike saturday night. They tried to persuade the schools 207 girls to participate in the protest but failed. The Young men lashed out by fusing the lights in the female dormitories around Midnight saturday and launching a raid. The girls barricaded themselves in part of one building but the marauding boys knocked Down a door and rushed in. The nation said the ensuing crush killed 19 girls and injured 67. Back in place workers in Berlin set the Victoria statue Back into the cart atop the Brandenberg Gate on monday. The 20-foot Bronze and Copper sculpture weighing nearly 5 tons is part of the Quadriga that adorns the Gate. The Quadriga underwent 15 months of restoration. Chinese firms to join Effort to quell Kuwait Oil Well fires Kuwait a chinese companies will join american and Canadian firms in putting out Oil Well fires started by the iraqis before they withdrew from Kuwait. A contract for the work was signed sunday at the end of chinese prime minister i Peng a visit to the emirate the first by a chinese Premier. Kuwait was the last Stop on lies six nation Middle East tour which also took him to Egypt Jordan Iran saudi Arabia and Syria. He arrived sunday with a delegation of High ranking officials to discuss bilateral relations. On his tour i has supported a  plan to control arms sales in the Middle East. But he has insisted that China the fifth largest arms seller in the world will accept Only a comprehensive plan that would include All countries in the Region. 1 he United states has already promised to sell advanced combat jets to saudi Arabia and its neighbors and to continue weapons sales to Israel. The chinese will Start their six month Effort to fight the fires in mid August according to the agreement