ATTACKED BY TIGERS.
FAMINE-THREATENED CHINESE. HANKOW; August 20. To the sufferings of farmers in Hupeh Province from drought have now been added the ravages of hungry wolves and tigers, which have been driven from the hills in search of food, and are attacking peasants caught by night in the open. Already eleven persons are reported to have been carried off and eaten. Throughout China drought and floods are taking a terrible toll, and some 5,000,000 peasants who live always on the border of destitution are faced with starvation. For the last six weeks a heat wave has been raging, in which the daily temperature has 'averaged 97 degrees in the shade. In many provinces the- crops have been dried up, and the losses have been terrific. In others torrential rain has caused floods over vast areas, and many people have been drowned and villages swept away. Near Nanking a mob of over 1000 hungry farmers stormed a villa-re and carried away all the foodstuffs by force, leaving the inhabitants to starve.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 224, 21 September 1934, Page 9
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