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Official reports from Anhwei Province in the heart of China told of 500,000 peasants now almost without food and water, struggling against famine under brazen skies which have parched and shriveled them for weeks at temperatures never lower than 100° and rising to 120°.
Meanwhile in South China famine was provoked by floods. A cloudburst sent roaring down the Ingtai River a 50-ft. wall of foaming yellow death. Bodies washed down into the great Min River, drifted in bloated hundreds out to sea. Read a flash from missionary headquarters in the flood area: "Deaths are inestimable."