Survivors Resort to Cannibalism
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■ ' Received Wednesday, 1.15 p.m. CHUNGKING, March 2% The Central news agency reported that over 10,0.00 inh^hitants of Veingnien, in the south of Hupeh Province, have died of stary ation since Communist forces blockaded the town six mohths a g,o. The news agency added that survivors are resorting tp cannibalism due to the exhaustion of the supply of tree bark on which they havje been subsisting. k
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Chronicle (Levin), 27 March 1946, Page 5
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