CROPS FAIL
Storms In China
f N Z.P.A -Reuter- —4 Copyright) HONG KONG, May 14. Peking Radio said today that 100.000 acres of wheat in Shantung Province of China were ruined by winds which lasted more than 24 hours as part of a cold front advancing from Siberia. British United Press reported. Last Friday, the radio announced that 350.000 acres of newly-planted seedlings and wheat sown last winter were affected by drought, hail, high winds and snowstorms. Hupeh. Honan and Kwangtung provinces also bad water shortages, flooding and other ‘‘natural calamities.” Today’s report meant that nearly 500.000 acres of farmland had bad some sort of crop failure this year
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29514, 16 May 1961, Page 15
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109CROPS FAIL Press, Volume C, Issue 29514, 16 May 1961, Page 15
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