FLOODS AND FAMINE
SUFFERINGS IN CHINA
THOUSAND MORE LIVES LOST
LONDON, October 8. The Peking correspondent of The Times" says that thousands more lives have been lost in.floods in Northern Kiang-su. The entire town of Machengan is submerged. '.■''■" j Northern Honan is suffering' in a! similarly: severe manner, while thte.i | southern ~ part of the province is in j ithe grip of famine in consequence of' ; drought. Refugees are reduced to eat-■; [ing grass, roots, and the bark of trees.] [Desperate parents are selling children ifor a handful of rice.
A Nanking message of October 5,: stated that, five and a half million! people were rendered homeless by! floods in the provinces of Hopei, Honari, ■ and Shantung. Material- damage amounts to £22,500,000. , i
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 87, 9 October 1935, Page 11
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