CALAMITIES IN CHINA
| —<s’ THOUSANDS OF LIVES LOST FLOOD, FAMINE AND ’QUAKE. MILLION IN NEED OF HELP. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) SHANGHAI, Sept. 27. When it is not war it is famine, floods and earthquakes which actually take tremendous toll in China Official reports at Nanking show that in Yellow River floods this winter approximately 51>,C00 persons lost their lives and * 000,000 were adversely affected. A million are starving or receiving relief. A brief message (now reports an earthquake in western Szechuen. It is estimated that at least 7GUO Chinese perished during these shakes which rocked the Mowsien and Heisnikow districts, where thousands of houses collapsed, investigators consider it the worst, calamity of its kind in a hundred years.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 28 September 1933, Page 5
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