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...admit that Mao Tse-tung has indeed succeeded in eliminating inflation, and even famine, if he has already liquidated enough millions of people to achieve that. But floods! Does the dreaded Chairman Mao have the magical power to alter, mind you in three years, the course of the Hwang-ho, the Yangtze, and various other rivers which have been the sole cause of this natural disaster...
...Victory? Lee, Hwang, Son and the millions like them, their brothers and their elders, are a staggering problem for the U.N. So far the U.N.'s Civil Assistance Command-meaning, mostly, U.S. Army G-4-has prevented starvation in South Korea. Since war began, the Army has shipped in 100,000 tons of grain, millions of yards of cloth, 3,000 tons of clothing. Soup kitchens, emergency refugee camps, orphanages have been set up in the South. In North Korea, things are worse...
...Japanese columns rumbled from their village bases, snaked westward across the knee-high wheat of Honan. Overhead, their aircraft roared on their way to bomb Chinese towns strung out along the Hwang Ho, the River of Sorrow...
...According to Chinese claims the first use of a magnetic compass was by Chinese Emperor Hwang-ti in a battle in 2364 B.C. To guide his warriors through an enemy fog screen, he mounted on a cart a magnetized figure which steadily pointed south. But the real origin of the compass and its first use is uncertain...
...Yellow River to flood is nothing new. Its Chinese name, Hwang Ho, is taken from hwang tu, the "yellow dirt" which it carries down in great quantity from Shansi and Shensi. This pale silt is constantly being dropped on the riverbed, which consequently steadily rises above the adjoining land. To keep the river in line the Chinese have long built dikes. Rising floor and walls have made the river an aqueduct, lifted its surface at high water as much as 30 feet above the surrounding plain. So frequently has the ochre stream cracked its dikes and devastated the countryside that...