Locust Plague Brings Famine To China
CHUNGKING, August 23
Huge swarms of locusts stripped the countryside bare in 10 large counties of Honan province, which are ordinarily fertile, but where a disastrous famine occurred last year. Mr Ernest Wampler, representative of the American Advisory Committee. said Locusts have left absolutely nothing green, only yellow desolate land in their wake. Twentyeight million persons are affected. Mr Wampler added that last year starving peasants ate bark from trees, grass and weeds, but this year even the trees are stripped and nothing edible remains. Only food from outside can prevent further wholesale deaths.
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Northern Advocate, 25 August 1943, Page 3
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