FAMINE 02 Dec 1943
Since the outbreak of war, in 1937, there has been no general crop failure in China. But a few local famines,
which were caused by drought, floods, and pestilence, have, given a ghastly demonstration of what happens when the narrow dam that stands between the farmer’s life and the farmer’s death suddenly caves in.
Those who have come out of the Honan and Kwantung famine districts tell weird, almost in credible tales of people eating bark off trees, people eating grass, people eat rats; of thousands of persons dropping dead at the roadside, of others going mad with hunger.
—Ernest O. Hauseiy
“Saturday Evening Post.”