Famine HONG KONG 08 May 1953

Famine (1953, May 8). The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 – 1954), p. 4. Retrieved October 9, 2024, from https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/55802290?searchTerm=famine&searchLimits=#

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More than 1,000,000 people were suffering from a widespread famine in south-west China, a Chinese Communist newspaper which reported here today reported.
The Chungking newspaper, “Hsin Hun,” said that the famine had assumed big proportions in the provinces of Szechuan, Sikang, Kweichow and Yunnan.
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