China's hunger pangs were described with sharp medical clarity recently by a British surgeon. The average Chinese diet was always so low in protein (nitrogen compounds in meat, fish, some vegetables) that the slightest disruption in supply might produce famine. The disruption brought about by the war has"'been enormous. In south Kwangtung last year, H. T. Laycock, a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, doctored hundreds of Chinese who had been getting no protein at all. Wrote he to the British Medical Journal:
"More than 90% . . . had come from occupied into 'free' China. The remainder were nearly all...
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