FAMINE IN HONAN
Japs. Destroy Rice Stocks For Starving Chinese 5,000,000 PEOPLE AFFECTED Rec. 10.30 CHUNGKING, April 6. A famine in Honan Province, affecting approximately 5,000,000 persons is the greatest national disaster that has befallen the Chinese since the beginning of the war, states an official announcement. The Government's attempts to relieve the situation are rendered difficult because the neighbouring provinces, with the exception of Anhwei, have no food surpluses. Furthermore the Japanese have burned rice stocks in Anhwei that were intended for the relief of Honan.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 82, 7 April 1943, Page 3
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