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...backwash of postwar epidemics spread across China, carried by 60,000,000 louse-ridden refugees. Two months ahead of the virulent summer season, a cholera epidemic broke in Canton. Only cool weather prevented a full-scale epidemic in Hankow. Bubonic plague broke out in Foochow, and in north China was apparently moving on Peiping and Tientsin. Two planes carrying UNRRA medical supplies flew to Tientsin to meet the threat...
...Canton, a city of nearly 1,000,000, there was only one foreign doctor to fight the epidemic: Frank H. Herrington, who resigned from the U.S. Navy last fall to join UNRRA. He diagnosed 162 cases of cholera, watched the fatality rate climb to 50%. Canton lacked cholera vaccine, the distilled water and apparatus to give intravenous saline solutions as part of the prescribed treatment for cholera patients...
First Rubber. The first shipment of crude rubber to the U.S. from the Far East since 1942 arrived in New York. The Canton Victory brought in 8,100 tons. Another 275,000 to 350,000 tons of natural rubber are expected to reach the U.S. this year...
...messages showed, the Jap Embassy received instructions on how to destroy codes and other confidential material. On Dec. 2, Washington intercepted a message from Canton to Tokyo: "If hostilities are to begin, we here are all prepared...
...Anything can happen if only peace exists - it will be possible to ride a railway train from Canton to the Amur River under a single flag ; possible to irrigate the fields of Hunan with the waters of Szechwan; possible to warm the homes of Shanghai with the coal of Shansi, possible to fuel the trucks of Yünnan with the oil of Sinkiang. The vision is too great, the hope too high for any group or any individual to dare to flout it with impunity...