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...ageless are China's problems and how bitterly Chinese history repeats itself in cycles of wars, floods and famines, TIME Correspondent Teddy White could tell last week from firsthand knowledge. He was just back from a two-week trip through starving Honan Province. His report...
...seems unreal: dogs eating human bodies by the roads, peasants seeking dead human flesh under the cover of darkness, endless deserted villages, beggars swarming at every city gate, babies abandoned to cry and die on every highway. Nothing can transmit the horror of the entire great famine in Honan Province, or the irony of the green spring wheat with a promise of a bumper crop which is not ripe for harvesting for two more months. Most terrible of all is the knowledge that the famine might have been averted...
CHUNGKING--Chinese troops, in their greatest victory of the past six months, have completely upset the enemy campaign in the Honan-Anhwei-Hupeh border triangle of central China after killing more than 3,000 Japanese, it was announced tonight...
Twenty or more thousand square miles in northern Honan Province are clutched in the grip of hunger. Men and women are eating the bark of trees and grass roots; swollen-bellied children are being sold for grain. Thousands have already died, hundreds of thousands are failing, ten millions face the slow winter-long agony of starvation. Causes: 1) the Japanese, who destroyed the rice before they retreated; 2) the gods, who sent no rain for the wheat...
...Honan Province is shaped like a sloppy rectangle and is bounded on the northeast by the Japanese army, which also occupies one-third of its area. Seventy counties are left free in Honan. The 35 counties crowded close against the Japanese in the northeast pocket are being withered by the worst civilian disaster in China since the outbreak of war. Refugees crossing the Chinese lines from Shantung report worse conditions there than in Honan. The refugees drift along in a stupor of hunger and despair, having no destination, but only the desperate urgency of flight...