STRICKEN CHINA
FAMINE AND WAR.
MILLIONS MAY PERISH. FIVE PROVINCES THREATENED. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) SYDNEY, Jan. 30. Mr E. Ainsworth, formerly of the Asiatic Petroleum Company, arrived here from China to-day. He declared that China was faced with the worst famine for many years. Five provinces were stricken, and it was probable that 10,000,000 Chinese would perish of starvation. Three parties had combined to form a Nationalist Government at Nanking, land they were doing their utmost to ; create order out of chaos, but the prospects of a famine in Shantung, Honan, Shansi, Shins! and Kansu were awful. Roots, leaves and bark were being eaten by the inhabitants. To make matters worse civil war was continuing in various districts. Mr Ainsworth, with his wife and three daughters, lived for many years in Honan. They are now going to take up farming in New Zealand in order to escape, from the misery of Chinese surroundings.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 31 January 1929, Page 5
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