2
Million Chinese Die
Of
Famine in Few Months
Peiping,China, Jan. 13 (AP). ---The China
International famine relief is confronting the most hopeless
situation it has ever faced in famine-ridden China in the Northern
province of Shensi, where thousands of people are dying from famine
and exposure.
Grover Clark, a former Peiping newspaper editor,
returning from a six-week inspection trip in the Wei river district,
declared today that 2,000,000 people out of 6,000,000 in the area,
died during the past eight months. Thousands were frozen to death
during the recent cold wave when, with the thermometer at 32 below,
Shensi province suffered the coldest weather recorded in its history.
The people, accustomed to a minimun temperature of 15 above for more
than 49 years, were caught unprepared.
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