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Last year three million Chinese died, 20 million were affected by the great Honan (Central China) famine. Chungking correspondents last week reported another famine, this time in the Kwangtung area in South China. More than 1,000,000 Chinese have died there since last June; millions more are in acute...
Lean, dark George Adams, U.S. representative of the International Relief Committee, recently visited Kwangtung, told of what he had seen when he returned to Chungking last week. Said Adams:
...Chungking last week political experts sipped cups of scalding tea and discussed the possibility of a Japanese peace offensive. Japan's militarists, the Chungkingers reasoned, know that Axis defeat is inevitable, hence hope to drive a bargain with the Allies...
Winston Churchill, Generalissimo & Madame Chiang Kai-shek and Joseph Stalin were among the rare birds whose watercolor portraits (after John James Audubon) were shown in Manhattan's Raymond & Raymond gallery last week (see cut). Their natures were suitably described by their caricaturist, 31-year-old San Franciscan Justin Murray...
A Chungking spokesman reported that crewmen from a U.S. submarine had landed at Newchwang, Manchuria, and purchased fresh fish from the natives. To reach Newchwang, at the northern end of the Gulf of Liaotung, the submarine would have had to penetrate the string of islands off the southern tip of...