{"id":5196,"date":"2023-08-09T02:11:33","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T16:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=5196"},"modified":"2023-08-09T02:11:33","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T16:11:33","slug":"30-millions-hungry-21-aug-1931-shanghai-thursday-thirty-one-millions-of-chinese-are-on-the-verge-of-starvation-through-the-yangtse-flood-which-affects-an-area-1000-miles-long-and-50-miles-wide-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=5196","title":{"rendered":"30 MILLIONS HUNGRY 21 Aug 1931. SHANGHAI. Thursday. THIRTY-ONE millions of Chinese are on the verge of starvation through the Yangtse flood, which affects an area 1000 miles long and 50 miles wide."},"content":{"rendered":"

30 MILLIONS HUNGRY (1931, August 21).\u00a0The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1931 – 1954)<\/i>, p. 9. Retrieved August 9, 2023, from\u00a0https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/246718506?searchTerm=30%20millions%20hungry&searchLimits=#<\/a><\/p>\n

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TERRIFIC FLOOD IN CHINA<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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SHANGHAI. Thursday.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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THIRTY-ONE millions of Chinese are on the verge of starvation through the Yangtse flood, which affects an area 1000 miles long and 50 miles wide.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Homes and crops in the flood belt have been destroyed. Hankow is in undated, and the horrors of the disaster have been augmented by disease resulting from floating corpses.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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A shortage of drinking water and of food is causing alarm. Damage running into millions has been done to property, while undermined buildings have collapsed, killing the inmates.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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HIDEOUS PROSPECT<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Hankow streets lie under seven feet of swirling water, which will take months to subside. Unless the city is rebuilt, it may go off the map. The Government and foreigners in Shanghai are raising relief funds.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Nanking proposes the purchase of 30,000,000 bushels of American wheat on 20 years\u2019 credit, by way of anticipating the inevitable winter famine.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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This famine, it is feared, will be the greatest calamity that the nation has ever experienced.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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