During the Japanese occupation, the once prosperous South China port of Swatow (prewar pop. 179,000) was cut off from rice imports, suffered famine. "Coffins were lined up at a certain place by a charitable Buddhist organization, and the people staggered there to lie down in the coffins to await death. In that way, they were sure of some sort of a burial."
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