FAMINE IN CHINA
100,000 PEOPLE DEAD WORST DISASTER RECORDED HONG KONG, 14th April. A hundred thousand persons are reported dead and 1,000,000 existing on roots and mud in the Chinese provinces of Szechwan and Shensi.
These provinces arc enduring their worst famine in recorded history. Rain has not fallen for many months, and most of the livestock used in farmwork has been eaten.
The famine has practically ended the war between the Communists and the Nanking Government. The Communist armies have retreated to a fastness in Kiansu and thousands of square miles of desolated country divide the opposing forces.
So low has the Yangtse Kiang fallen that water transport to the affected regions is impossible. The only relief reaching them is by slow, overland porterage.
Szechwan, normally the granary of China, is the largest province, and ordinarily maintains a population of 52,000,000. Shensi, only a third of its size, supports 17,000.000 people.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 29 April 1937, Page 9
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