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An estimated one million Chinese are threatened with death by starvation before the fall harvests this year, according to UNRRA field surveys, which list the food scarcity areas as those marked in solid black on this map UNRRA transport facilities have been mobilized to rush aid to famine-stricken areas of Hunan, Honan and Shantung The extent of last year's famine, when an estimated seven million Chinese faced death, is indicated by diagonal lines on this map Areas near Canton in Kwangtung, where recent floods have washed away what promised to be a superlative rice crop, and the Liaoning peninsula near Korea, shown by crisscrossing on map, may also have a scarcity of food this year, UNRRA reports indicate
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