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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 20, 16 October 1937, Page 5

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Chinese Refugees

MttilOH QUIT HOMES * Many Rely «n Garbage for Food APPROACH OF WINTER

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(Beceived 16, 10,60 a.m.) SHANGHAI, Oct. 14. With the approaeh of winter, the #utherities *re most conceped at the pli|rht the destitute Chinese, many pf wbom have JiecL £ rom Ihe wai jsones. Jt is estimated that 1,000,000 have ifft .ytiaif hoxhep, of which number thxeequarter* have gone to Shanghai. ^ Two hwgdrwl thousand homeless are living iif slleys and doorways, while tens of $*&**** of others axe being housed in fhwlf, need warm clpthing, beddmg and aaedical supplies. Outbreoks of smallp0xt diphthena, acariet fever, typhus, meniugitis, nnd iefl-uooea axe feared. Many ©f the destitute rely oa garbage ©aua for food. Others beg in tha etreets, and thousands »rp liying on chari^r, with. the help of friends, or oa their owa dwindling resourees. It j* feared that 600,000 will be destitate befor# Cbrisimas, and the tatai u Jiksly to iiereasa as the area of Iwstiiities exteads. • Three hnadxod and fifty thousand farmers putside the municipai areas ara nnfiijilo to harvest the summer exops, and "will not. fee able to pjant autumn crops. The reiief funds are atmost ©xhausted.